std.experimental.color, request reviews

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Tue Jun 23 09:14:57 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 15:29:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 15:24:44 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> std/range/package.d and std/regex/package.d both have a bunch 
>> of stuff in. Why not?
>
> Those are also mistakes (well, probably just semi-migrated from 
> the old big module). Suppose you want some of that stuff 
> without the rest of the package. How do you get to it?
>
> The biggest benefit of breaking up the big modules is so you 
> can access some of it without requiring all of it. But when the 
> part you want is in the package.d, you can't get it 
> independently anymore; importing that also imports everything 
> else, negating the reason it was split up in the first place.

But that's more an argument against putting anything _except_ the 
basic definitions into package.d, no? Then you can always exclude 
the more specific stuff whenever you need it, and those modules 
themselves can publicly import package.d.


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