[phobos] datetime review

[Jacob Carlborg]

I completely agree.

On 9 okt 2010, at 12:46, Denis wrote:

> This is an interesting discussion that I personally find very important.
> 
> One of the most annoying things in Phobos is that modules are too
> large and by too large I mean they contain lots and lots of stuff that
> are loosely related to each other.
> 
> I'm strongly against design like that. As a programmer I've been grown
> with idea of module separation in mind. At work, we are spending tens
> of hours discussing the same problem: code dependency reduction. In
> Phobos, it's just a disaster - every module is a monster that heavily
> depends or other monsters alike.
> 
> I've heard an opinion that it's hard for people to remember too many
> modules names. However, they know that you need to import std.array to
> use Appender, or std.algorithm to use sort etc. As such, it shouldn't
> be any harder for them to import std.algorithm.sort; or import
> std.array.appender; Alternatively, they may import std.algorithm.all
> and have the whole bulk of features at their disposal, but from my
> experience, that's not what is needed anyway. Here is a random import
> snippet from my code:
> 
> import core.memory : GC;
> import core.atomic : cas;
> import core.stdc.string : memcpy;
> import core.sync.semaphore : Semaphore;
> 
> In ddmd, I have
> 
> module dmd.expression.Add;
> module dmd.expression.And;
> module dmd.expression.ArrayLength;
> etc
> 
> each declaring just *one* method and only imports stuff that that
> particular module needs. It helps reducing module dependencies *a
> lot*.
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/Jacob Carlborg