DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Community Review Round 1

[Walter Bright]

On 12/15/2019 2:33 AM, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 December 2019 at 04:20:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> object.d is getting more and more bloated over time. This is not a solution to 
>> imports, and is not a good trend.
> 
> A bit other topic, but this can be fixed by splitting object.d in multiple 
> modules in same package, and auto import that package, just like how it is done 
> in java with java.lang package.
> 
> For example, object.d could be split into several modules under d.lang package.
> 
> This will also clean existing bloatware, since we could move typeinfo, object 
> definition and other stuff into separated modules.

The reality is that compilation time is more proportional to the number of files 
than the size of the files. Splitting up object.d into multiple modules that 
must still be loaded will make things slower.

Also, splitting it up into multiple modules does not eliminate the complexity of it.