Phobos 3 Discussion Notes - 02-01-2024

aberba karabutaworld at gmail.com
Fri Feb 2 17:48:30 UTC 2024


On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 15:08:37 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 03/02/2024 3:46 AM, aberba wrote:
>> [...]
>
> That is not part of the current work, although Adam does have a 
> wish list and thoughts about it.
>
> Please note that Phobos is getting close enough to the 64k 
> symbol limit on Windows that we cannot be expanding its scope. 
> So the consideration of how to architect a new standard library 
> must occur prior to work on it.
>
> Starting with something that isn't just a wish list is right. 
> It isn't some library that we can chop and change on, its going 
> to live for 20+ years so its going to have to be designed right.

I understand what you're saying however it doesn't necessarily 
mean "adding" to existing code. I think a lot of the old legacy 
stuff should be removed from new std.


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