[phobos] next release (module useability)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:11:16 David Simcha wrote:
> Funny, I was going to suggest just lumping all three (path, file, stdio).

Well, looking at the docs for std.stdio, it does some quite odd that it and 
std.file are separate. It seems quite natural to import one module for console 
I/O and another for file I/O, but given that the console I/O is essentially using 
file I/O to do its thing, it becomes quite odd for them to be separate. So, 
consolidating std.stdio and std.file starts looking like a good idea. And while 
I'd prefer that std.path stay separate, if std.stdio and std.file are a single 
module and that module is  pretty much always used if std.path is used, then 
having it separate becomes useful pretty much only because it keeps the docs 
separate and thus less cluttered. So, there is some merit in combining all 
three. Certainly, looking at the API for std.stdio, I'd say that it definitely 
should be combined with std.file.

- Jonathan M Davis