[phobos] proposal for new top level package name "experimental"

[Don Clugston]

Observation: We still have the 'etc' namespace with practically nothing in it.

On 29 March 2011 02:25, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
> Problem is that we'd occupy two top-level namespaces instead of one. Right
> now people know better than define a package called "std". From here onwards
> they'd need to remember that both "std" and "experimental" are verboten.
>
> I wouldn't want to take the discussion much further, as I'm sure there are
> many nuances of paint for this bikeshed. If you want top-level experimental,
> go for it.
>
>
> Andrei
>
> On 3/28/11 7:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking the latter...
>>
>> On 3/28/2011 5:10 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> Yah. Would that be std.experimental or just experimental? I suggest
>>> the former.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> On 3/28/11 7:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Called "experimental". Into this would go proposed new Phobos modules,
>>>> such that they will go out with dmd releases. Once they've been in use
>>>> for a while and prove themselves, then they can be moved into std (or
>>>> dropped).
>>>>
>>>> This was proposed in the n.g. and seems to be well received.
>>
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