I want to add a Phobos module with template mixins for common idioms.

[Idan Arye]

On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 20:10:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/6/13 4:03 PM, Robert Rouse wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 19:57:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> On 5/6/13 3:14 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
>>>> Template mixins can be used to implement some common 
>>>> programming
>>>> idioms(and design patterns). I have already implemented two 
>>>> of them for
>>>> my own project - and I want to make them into a Phobos 
>>>> module - maybe
>>>> `std.mixins`.
>>>
>>> Nice idea, but at the first level of detail (without looking 
>>> into it)
>>> the title should not be dictated by implementation artifacts, 
>>> i.e. we
>>> don't have modules such as "std.templates" or "std.structs" 
>>> etc.
>>> Conversely, if you implement a pattern via other means than a 
>>> mixin,
>>> you're in trouble :o).
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Since they are idioms, why not std.idioms or std.idiomatic?
>
> std.patterns is the sweet spot.
>
> Andrei

I like `std.idioms`. `std.patterns` can be ambiguous, since it 
can also refer to regex patterns or to functional pattern 
matching - and not just to design patterns.