[phobos] std.all

[Steve Schveighoffer]

I second this.  std modules are already well organized for specific categories of code.  If we look at a language that uses wildcards for package inclusion such as Java, you do something like java.io.*, not java.*.

This would be more appropriate for something like Tango where modules are created for even small functions.  It was tried there, and nobody really used it, so it was removed.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tue, June 8, 2010 4:18:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] std.all
> 
> 

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

The 
> parse time will invariably grow as phobos grows. I expect std.all will become 
> the preferred method of using D. The problems are:

1. People will come to 
> expect std.all to have everything and the kitchen sink in it, so we're 
> stuck.

2. People will inevitably do compile speed benchmarks with 
> std.all. And then we'll suck.

So I say "no" to 
> std.all.
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