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SomeDude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Fri Aug 3 13:32:40 PDT 2012


On Friday, 3 August 2012 at 19:44:22 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Caligo:
>
>> When are allocators going to be ready?
>
> Direct experience shows me that once things are in Phobos, it's 
> not easy to fix their interface/API. Andrei fears of breaking 
> changes, so even small API improvements of Phobos stuff written 
> last year are refused. See as example:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8467
>
> So Phobos stuff once created is almost set in stone. This means 
> that in practice the Phobos APIs should be perfect on the first 
> try. So better to not rush things, and do things right.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

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