std.compress

[Dmitry Olshansky]

04-Jun-2013 12:23, Walter Bright пишет:
> On 6/4/2013 1:15 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
  agree.
>
>> You should also mangle the name so that it doesn't
>> pollute the unqualified symbol namespace (either that or fix
>> visibility of
>> private symbols).
>
> If it proves useful, it will be moved into some more proper and public
> place.
>
> I think it's a bad idea to 'mangle' the name. First off, if it is
> private, it is not visible. And even being public, the anti-hijacking
> language features make it a non-problem. The whole point is to avoid the
> wretched C problems with a global name space, by not having a global
> name space.
>
They are visible and clash with other symbols just like public do. Maybe 
now is the time fix this bug?

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Dmitry Olshansky