On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 02:10:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 17:32:53 Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 12/20/11 2:58 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 19.12.2011, 19:08 Uhr, schrieb Walter Bright
>
> <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:
>> On 12/16/2011 2:55 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> For example, in std.datetime there's "final class Clock".
>>> It
>>> inherits
>>> nothing,
>>> and nothing can be derived from it. The comments for it
>>> say it is
>>> merely a
>>> namespace. It should be a struct.
>>
>> Or perhaps it should be in its own module.
>
> When I first saw it I thought "That's how _Java_ goes about
> free
> functions: Make it a class." :)
Same here. If I had my way I'd rethink the name of those
functions.
Having a cutesy prefix "Clock." is hardly justifiable.
It's not the only place in Phobos which uses a class as a
namespace. I believe that both std.process and
std.windows.registry are doing the same thing.
In this case, it nicely group all of the functions that are
grabbing the time in one form or another. They're all
effectively grabbing the time from the system clock, so they're
grouped on Clock.
- Jonathan M Davis
Sounds like the perfect candidate for its own module.
