On 2013-02-15 03:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
There's a big difference between admitting it exists (I don't think that anyone denies that it does) and treating it as part of the standard library. And I wouldn't expect it to ever be treated as part of the standard library no matter how good it is, just like no other 3rd party library is going to be treated as if it were part of the standard library. The closest that there is to that is when we link against C stuff (like curl), and we don't even do a lot of that. The only way that 3rd party stuff is going to be part of the standard library is if it's actually integrated intto the standard library just like everything else in there has been, and that puts certain requirements on the API (e.g. range-based) and the license (i.e. Boost), both of which Tango fails at. It's perfectly fine to do things differently in a 3rd party library but not in the standard library.
This discussion is clearing running in circles. -- /Jacob Carlborg