[phobos] Community shout-out?

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:32:28 +0900, Robert Jacques <sandford at jhu.edu>  
wrote:

> 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.

It is good news to me :)
I wait your patch!


Masahiro