On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 00:28:51 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
I was looking at
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3765 and
whilst it's a sensible addition, I'm thinking we'd want to pass
it and all other library additions through std.experimental
first. So we'd have a std.experimental.range package that would
be a purgatory for things to be added to std.range, and so on.
We have examples from the past when additions that seemed
obvious and sensible needed a few tweaks before stabilization.
Going through std.experimental seems like a good approach to do
such.
What say you?
Andrei
Author of the PR here. If this is the precedent you want to set
that's fine with me.
Two things though: We would need to do some announcement to tell
people that the purpose of std.experimental is fundamentally
changing from "staging area for new modules" to "staging area for
all new symbols". Two, we need some set rules on when each type
of addition goes out std.experimental. I can envision things
sitting there for a while if we don't have a hard and fast rule,
as people will want to keep making additions/changes.
