DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

Don nospam at nospam.com.au
Thu Oct 23 08:47:46 PDT 2008


Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:30 +0200,
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> In any case, a hierarchy of the type
>>
>> common/
>>   core/
>>   sys/
>>   stdc/
>>
>> should be highly considered. This would allow a namespace for functionality
>> that is truly common, not only the runtime, but math and eventually other
>> functionality. In addition it is naive to believe that just because
>> druntime is meant to be a common runtime, that it will be the only runtime
>> in the long run.
> 
> There is no 'truly common' functionality beyond the absolutely necessary 
> core runtime.  The fact that Phobos and Tango share some code only means 
> that such code is ought to be in any stand-alone, general-purpose 
> library.  Not that it must be built-in.

??? Don't understand.
Are you simply saying that there's no need for standard libraries?


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