D library projects

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:30:04 -0500, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, div0 <div0 at users.sourceforge.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> What phobos is really lacking is a bunch of container classes, ala stl.
>> I've been pondering swiping/porting the container classes from stlport.
>> License looks like the port could be re-licensed as boost.
>>
>> good idea/bad idea?
>
> STL implementation code is horrifically unreadable.  But potentially
> worse is that the design is, I suspect, thoroughly entrenched in
> assumptions based on the limitations of C++ templates (contributing to
> that unreadablility).  And they're designed around iterators rather
> than ranges, which will surely make for some significant differences.
> I sure wouldn't try to port STLport or any other flavor of STL to D.
>
> I kinda think the best way to write a container lib for D would just
> be to go back to square one: pseudocode in CLR and other algorithms
> books.  Certainly not the quickest way, though.
>
> Anyway I thought Steve S. or Dimscha or someone said they were writing
> a D2 container lib already. No?

dcollections will be D2 eventually.  It already supports D1 via Tango or  
Phobos.  I want to make it aware of D2-like features (const, ranges, etc),  
so it's not just a simple port.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/dcollections

-Steve