[phobos] Community shout-out?

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:02:27 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<andrei at erdani.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/10 9:48 AM, Robert Jacques wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:06:24 -0500, Masahiro Nakagawa
>> <repeatedly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:18:17 +0900, SHOO <zan77137 at nifty.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know it about this matter so deeply. Perhaps you are
>>>> understanding it more precisely than me. This will be preaching to
>>>> the choir...
>>>>
>>>> Nakagawa Masahiro did porting of MessagePack to D.
>>>> This module is aimed for serialization and can convert data structure
>>>> with character string mutually.
>>>> The main purpose of serialization of MessagePack is to hand data
>>>> beyond programs and development languages.
>>>> And it is std.event to offer mechanism about the communication of the
>>>> data which transcended programs/processes.
>>>
>>> I think the review of std.msgpack is done.
>>> But I will replace MPObject implementation with std.variant before
>>> adding to Phobos.
>>> Unfortunately, this progress is stopped because This[strng] causes
>>> compilation error :(
>>
>> I've been working on an update to std.json, where this is also an issue,
>> and have written a patch. Unfortunately, it's on my home PC, so I'll
>> post it later tonight.
>
> Does the patch avoid the issues that made Algebraic not work?
>
> Andrei

The patch is to std.variant and includes some additional API  
improvements/updates (mainly to operator overloading). So yes, it makes  
Algebraic work as expected.