std.string will get the boot

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lutger wrote:
> On 01/29/2010 09:43 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>> I think the idea of tags is awesome, particularly because it doesn't
>>> require one to divide items in disjoint sets. I'll think some more of 
>>> it.
>>
>> A hierarchical D/Python-like module system isn't the only way to 
>> organize blocks of code. Both future Windows file system and Google 
>> Email use tags to create groups of items in a less disjoint way. But I 
>> don't know if it's possible to design the equivalent of a module 
>> system based on tags instead of a hierarchy of modules/packages (and 
>> superpackages). It seems a cute idea.
>>
> 
> This is about the documentation, which at the moment is based on the 
> module system, type system and order of declarations. Such tags allow 
> for better indexes, organization and search through the docs.

I don't think it would be too far-fetched to define and use tags for 
selective imports a la:

// inside std.algorithm
@tag(string, comparison) bool startsWith(...)(...) { ... }

// in client code
// get everything tagged with "string"
import std.algorithm : @tag(string);


Andrei