Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

Don nospam at nospam.com
Wed Jan 21 06:58:55 PST 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> IUnknown wrote:
>> Regarding Phobos + Tango, the minimum I expect is things like
>> containers, algorithm and common math stuff to be in one core module.
> 
> This is already bound to be an issue because there is disagreement on 
> how e.g. containers should look like (Java-style vs. STL-style). Which 
> should be chosen? This naturally influences how algorithms are defined.
> 
> 
> Andrei


The analogy with KDE vs Gnome doesn't seem valid to me -- most libraries 
will work regardless of which GUI library is chosen. Programmers can 
still rely on the Posix and C standard libraries.

Can we work out the math stuff at least? There's no difference between 
Phobos and Tango there. All we need is an agreement on common module 
naming (eg, create core.math).

By the way, Andrei, this is exactly the kind of attitude which I was 
ranting about. There are clear areas of duplicated code (fortunately 
much of it is in druntime now), and even Tango's containers still seem 
to be in a state of flux (the old container library is deprecated, and 
very little of Tango is currently using containers).
Everyone -- can we be productive instead of dismissive, please?



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