DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/27/2014 11:17 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 27/04/14 21:39, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> std.datetime is a giant kitchen sink. This is not the best way to
>> organize things. Using smaller modules under packages is a much better way.
>
> It's taken an amazingly long time for the core developers to realize this. I'm
> glad it's happened tough :)
>

We've known it for a long time, but nobody has done anything about it.

For example, the new package.d feature was specifically designed so that long 
modules can be broken up without breaking user code. Nobody has yet modified any 
Phobos code to actually do this.