std.compress

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:38:56 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 6/5/13 2:42 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Is that even necessary? We could just do this:
>>
>> ----std/algorithm.d----
>> module std.algorithm;
>> public import std.algorithm.search;
>> public import std.algorithm.compare;
>> public import std.algorithm.iteration;
>> public import std.algorithm.sort;
>> public import std.algorithm.set;
>> public import std.algorithm.mutation;
>> ----snip----
>
> For perfect 100% undetectable backwards compatibility:
>
> module std.algorithm;
> private import std.algorithm.search;
> alias balancedParens = std.algorithm.search.balancedParens;
> alias boyerMooreFinder = std.algorithm.search.boyerMooreFinder;
> ...

All this does over public import is avoid adding the full names into the  
namespace (which would arguably be OK, since those didn't exist before).

public import already automatically aliases all the symbols for you.

One thing you have to be careful of is if blah is a function in  
std.algorithm, and you have a module named std.algorithm.blah, you would  
have troubles.

So I would name the modules things like 'std.algorithm.searching' instead  
of 'std.algorithm.search', since search is a really good name for a  
function.

-Steve