Recently, Ilya has been helping to clean up import dependencies between Phobos module. In the course of cleaning up std.string, a few public imports were removed because they were not referenced by the module itself. However, this caused a regression:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13717 The code that got removed was: ------ //Remove when repeat is finally removed. They're only here as part of the //deprecation of these functions in std.string. public import std.algorithm : startsWith, endsWith, cmp, count; public import std.array : join, split; ------ >From the comment, it seems clear that the intent is to move these functions out of std.string into std.algorithm and std.array. However, there is currently no way to deprecate public imports, so we can't get rid of this dependency without breaking user code (one of my projects already doesn't compile because of this). What should we do? Anybody has a good idea for getting rid of the gratuitous dependency on std.algorithm / std.array without breaking user code with no warning? T -- EMACS = Extremely Massive And Cumbersome System
