[phobos] Hello, Phobos world!

[Philippe Sigaud]

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm very excited to announce that Philippe's excellent work on dranges
>and his display of overall expertise earned him the well-deserved right
> to commit to Phobos (after checking with me, greenhorn :o)).
> Philippe, you're the fifteenth member on the Phobos roster.
> I see you're already on phobos at puremagic.com, so you're good to go.
>
>Please join me in congratulating Philippe!

Thanks Andrei, thanks everyone in the Phobos ML for accepting me!

It'll be a pleasure to participate in all the good stuff I see over there!

Andrei, I already have a dsource account and currently use svn under Windows
(Vista) and linux (Kubuntu 10.04, but I do not have dmd installed there).
Rest assured, I do not intend to break Phobos from day one :o)

I don't know if that's customary to present oneself here? I'm 36 yo (ouch),
happily married for more than 10 years, father of three children (6 yo, 3
yo, 8 months). I got a PhD 10 years ago on organic LED, the kind you now all
have on you, but was 10-by-6 green pixels back then :o)


Things I'd like to help with:

* Phobos code, obviously, notably std.algorithm, functional, traits, range,
typecons, container, string, numeric, array, typetuple, maybe variant... I'm
feeling more or less confident on these, and totally incompetent on any
other :o) I will not touch core.*, even with a 10-ft pole. Anyway, I guess
it's not part of Phobos proper.

* Improving the documentation & examples for Phobos. I feel like most
functions and templates should have an example, if only a one liner. As an
aside, some modules could have satellite articles attached to them, with a
more developed example exercising the module, for example in dmd/samples ->
/container, /string etc. Reading the docs is good, seeing more than a
one-liner is even better.

* unit tests...

* Cleaning the DMD examples up: maybe putting some of the useful scripts you
like so much? Also, see above for my proposition to have more extended
examples for some modules.

* Updating the website documentation, if that's OK with Walter. I feel like
some people on the main ML could be invaluable in this.


And... I'm going on holidays in a few hours, in a place where I fear
Internet access is not perfect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_blanc ).
I won't bother you for some time.

cheers,

Philippe
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