Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Jarrod]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:01:26 +0100, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> More curiosity from me, what in Phobos do you consider cool, and at the
> same time miss in Tango?

Cool phobos stuff:
toString. 'Nuff said.
toStringz is also much easier to find. I had to follow a bug report under 
trac that I found with the search feature, just to find the same thing in 
Tango.

In Phobos the API layout and naming conventions 'feel' more right to me. 
If I need something solved with the library, I can generally find it 
quickly and easily because of its obvious naming, then just look up the 
documentation and within a few minutes I have a solution.
On the other hand Tango made me fiddle around a bit. A lot of API felt 
unfamiliar to me for some reason (perhaps my heavy C background?), and 
the documentation doesn't seem as clean. For example, just to find out 
how to add a pointer to the garbage collector made me have to search the 
trac just to find it. In Phobos it was pretty much instantly apparent. 
'std.gc'. I mean it's so apparent I can recall it off the top of my head, 
and it's not like I've used it more than the tango one which I can't at 
all recall the location of without looking it up (I remember it was an 
object called GC though if that's a consolation, but I only remember that 
because I aliased stc.gc to GC so as to have minimum versioning issues)
Oh, and the Phobos libs don't have leading Capitol Letters and oh man I 
don't really like that in Tango.

On the other foot, things I want from Tango:
Better threading, the fixed bugs, the text modules, the faster GC, all 
the useful extras like signals and etc are all really handy and useful.
So in short, "stuff".

Tangobos is pretty much my answer for now I guess, but I'd prefer a 
proper merge rather than having the two libraries just slapped together 
(okay I'm not trying to be mean here, it's not like Tangobos was a 5 
minute hack and I know that, but you get the point).

Well, hope that sates some of your curiosity. 
But odds are you probably have questions for some of my answers now. :>