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[Lionello Lunesu]

I totally agree!

> A Best Practice would be to post one's changes on the newsgroup for peer 
> review. And if well received, only then send them per e-mail to Walter.

...and that's the tricky part. There's no guarantee that the fix/add-on 
will make it into Phobos. Not because it might not be up to some 
standard, but because it's likely to be overseen. A newsgroup for Phobos 
might be a way of fixing this.

There's another problem. I don't "get" Phobos. If there's a thought 
behind it, I don't get it. I read the "philosophy" on the D site, and 
agree with it, but Phobos still looks like a bunch of random algorithms 
and patterns. For this reason, I, for one, would much rather submit 
patches to Ares than to Phobos.

I've already posted my opinion on the whole "standard library" issue: 
ideally I'd like to remake the .NET framework in D. Or perhaps a 
transparent way of using it, as was posted before. (I've been working on 
a tool that uses .NET reflection to dump the .NET classes and interface 
in .d files, including xml-doc in DDOC format.)

Anyway, I have no doubt Phobos could grow to be a good standard library.

L.