On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:09:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:

On 01/31/2011 01:18 AM, foobar wrote:

You completely miss the most important principle - it doesn't matter
how good and efficient your product is if no one's using it. Phobos
is a very good product that I for one will never use. Just looking at
the one huge page for algorithms is enough to discourage many
people.

From what I've seen, everyone who advocates D2 mentions std.algorithm as one of its main strengths, and never as a liability. I have difficulty reconciling that signal with one opinion relayed anonymously.

I think the main problem is with ddoc. This, from std.algorithm is a f**king mess IMO:

Jump to: BoyerMooreFinder EditOp Group NWayUnion OpenRight SetDifference SetIntersection SetSymmetricDifference SetUnion SortOutput Splitter SwapStrategy Uniq Until balancedParens boyerMooreFinder bringToFront canFind completeSort copy count endsWith equal fill filter find findAdjacent findAmong group indexOf initializeAll insert isPartitioned isSorted largestPartialIntersection largestPartialIntersectionWeighted levenshteinDistance levenshteinDistanceAndPath makeIndex map max min minCount minPos mismatch move moveAll moveSome nWayUnion no none partialSort partition reduce remove reverse schwartzSort semistable setDifference setIntersection setSymmetricDifference setUnion skipOver sort splitter stable startsWith substitute swap swapRanges topN topNCopy uninitializedFill uniq unstable until yes

(in voice of comic-book guy) Worst navigation bar ever.

-Steve

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