The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

Robert Fraser fraserofthenight at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 11:24:50 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I propose these essential classes and modules be moved into a separate 
>> package, like std.runtime.  So you would have std.runtime.thread, 
>> std.runtime.exception, etc.  Or whatever.  Then the line is even clearer.
> 
> See above.  That would be fine except for the confusion it would cause 
> for readers of our book.  Also, maintenance responsibility is a 
> potential issue.  None of these issues are addressed by a simple desire 
> to share code.
> 
> 
> Sean

I suppose the magic of aliases and templates couldn't help at all here 
(i.e. make tango.Thread a compile-time wrapper around std.runtime.thread 
...?)



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