UFCS for D

[Rory McGuire]

Andrei and Walter's proposal does not break existing code because it
makes folders into modules.



On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:43 AM, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 02/04/2012 18:00, Jacob Carlborg a écrit :
>
>> On 2012-04-02 16:31, Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>>> To be brutally honest, I don't think that's got much to do with the
>>> language. It's got to do with Phobos adopting the Big Ball Of Mud design
>>> pattern. There's no reason for the existing modules to be so huge. Eg, I
>>> created std.internal.math so that the math modules would stay small.
>>> Not only are the modules huge, they import everything.
>>
>>
>> I couldn't agree more.
>>
>
> I did noticed that, but this isn't the only problem.
>
>
>>> I'd like to see some attempt to fix the problem within the language
>>> right now, before jumping straight into language changes.
>>
>>
>> That's not very hard. It will just break existing code.
>>
>
> Yes, this is the point : refactoring a big module into submodules is hard
> because it break a lot of code, which is something we don't want ina
> standard lib for instance.
>
> Not because it isn't possible, but because almost all D code repose on
> phobos, so refactoring it into submodules is likely to massively break
> existing code.