[phobos] std.all

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Actually I've generated std.all myself and experimented with it 
(attached). The parse time with rdmd is larger than with individual 
modules, but not annoying.

Recently there seems to be a problem with BigInt. Trying to add std.all 
to the Phobos build yields the bizarre error:

std/all.d(7): Error: module bigint from file std/bigint.d conflicts with 
another module bigint from file std/bigint.d

Looks like a compiler bug.

Yes, generation of std.all can and must be automated. It's very easy to 
do so inside the makefile, which has a list of all modules. However, 
there's a problem with the Windows makefile which is underpowered.


Andrei

On 06/08/2010 12:02 PM, David Simcha wrote:
> Does anyone have any objections to adding a std.all to Phobos, which
> would just publicly import all of Phobos?  This would make it much
> easier to write small script-style programs in D, since so much
> functionality that's built into languages like Python and Perl is
> scattered across several Phobos modules in D.  The library functions
> work as well as builtins after they're imported, but having to add 10
> import statements to a simple 50-line program to get this functionality
> gets a little tedious at times.
>
> If we add std.all, is there any easy way to automatically keep it in
> sync as new modules are added to Phobos, or would this have to be done
> manually?
>
>
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