On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 17:27:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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:
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//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;
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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
What about:
static import std.algorithm : startsWith, endsWith, cmp, count;
static import std.array : join, split;
deprecated {
alias startsWith = std.algorithm.startsWith;
...
}
