std.container: fork in the road

ixid via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 17 08:29:33 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 14:57:40 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 06:08:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Took a fresh look at std.container from a Design by 
>> Introspection perspective
>
> I've seen you use this term a few times now; what does it mean?
>  (Lack of) Google results seem to indicate it's your own 
> neologism.
>
>> * The documentation is appallingly bad, making std.container 
>> worse than non-existent.
>>
> I tried using it a couple times.  Failed miserably every time.
>
>> Regarding compatibility, I see three possibilities:
>>
> #breakmycode!
>
> ...is my first impulse. But really it doesn't matter much-- I'm 
> not using std.container anywhere and I suspect it's much the 
> same for most everyone else.  I guess option 3 is fine, but 
> std.collection isn't nearly so good a name.
>
> -Wyatt

std.container2 and so on?


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