About Go, D module naming

[Rob T]

On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 12:20:01 UTC, Tobias Pfaff wrote:
> So the nice thing to have here would be a standardized 
> interface to the
> compiler, or even compiler as a library, with direct data 
> access to this
> kind of information.

Yes the concept of what a complier is, how how it is implemented 
should be redefined. The current concept is monolithic, you 
cannot easily extend it (no one can, not even the compiler devs), 
or make use of it outside of an extremely narrow usage range. 
Restructuring the compiler into a much more flexible and 
extensible tool is something that should be dealt at a later 
point, but there is a much bigger problem that needs to be taken 
on concerning how the language specification is being managed. 
Without a clear language specification that is accessible to 
everyone (try downloading it), and without a defined process to 
manage it, no one really knows fully what the language is 
supposed to be doing, and that limits severely what people are 
able to do in many areas. There's also a huge amount of endless 
discussions that never seem to conclude, and when there is a 
conclusion often the conclusion is not implemented or even 
retained for future reference.

--rt