On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:19:40PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-01-09 17:35, Marco Leise wrote:
>
> >I Phobos should follow OpenGL in this regard and use a
> >prefix like `etc` for useful but not finalized modules, so
> >early adapters can try out new modules compare them with any
> >existing API in Phobos where applicable (e.g. streams,
> >json, ...) and report any issues. I have a feeling that right
> >now most modules are tested by 2 people prior to the merge,
> >because they spent a life in obscurity.
>
> That has been suggested before and the counter argument is that
> people will start using and complain when it's changed, even if it's
> in an experimental. Someone here said that the javax. packages
> originally was experimental packages to they continued to live in
> the javax namespace to avoid breaking changes.
[...]
Maybe instead of calling it 'etc' we should outright call it
'experimental'. If you have code like:
import experimental.myawesomemodule;
...
I doubt you'd object very much when you have to rename it to:
import std.myawesomemodule;
...
since the word 'experimental' staring you in the face every time you
open up the file will be a constant nagging reminder that you're
depending on something unstable, giving you motivation to want to move
it to something stable as soon as you can.
T
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