std.string will get the boot

[Jonathan M Davis]

dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Jacob Carlborg (doob at me.com)'s article
>> Perhaps it's time to start adding more packages than just the std. Make
>> std.algorithm a package and try to split it into several modules.
> 
> Please, no.  I **HATE** fine-grained imports like Tango has.  I don't want
> to write tons of boilerplate at the top of every file just to have access
> to a bunch
> of closely related functionality.  If this is done, **PLEASE** at least
> make a std.algorithm.all that publicly imports everything in the old
> std.algorithm.

We need a balance. Fine-grained can be great, but if it's too fine-grained, 
it gets hard to find things and you have to import a ton of modules. Not 
fine-grained enough, however, and you have a hard me finding things because 
there's so much to search through in each module - though importing what you 
need is easy.

Personally, I'm fine with std.algorithm being split into sub-modules. It's 
already fairly large and splitting it up would make a lot of sense. But then 
a solution allowing you to import large portions - if not all of it - at 
once would definitely be nice. It's why being able to do something like

import std.*;

and have it recursively grab every sub-module would be nice. But 
std.algorithm.all is a good idea.

- Jonathan M Davis