maintenance

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/15/20 8:27 PM, James Blachly wrote:
> On 9/15/20 1:38 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Looks like there's a fair amount of opportunity to improving code in 
>> phobos in ways that reduce its complexity and size, and also make it 
>> more robust without breaking backwards compatibility. I just took 
>> std.algorithm.comparison because it kinda was the first 
>> alphabetically, and there's some good red here: 
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7635/. Would be great if others 
>> joined!
> 
> Andrei,
> 
> Thanks for doing this often thankless work. I benefit every day from 
> your and others' work on Phobos

Actually it's quite satisfying in a relaxing kind of way. Like putting 
tools in order in the shop. Also it's important; I recall people 
recommended here that beginners look at phobos' source for how to write 
idiomatic D. I'd definitely want them to look at good code.