On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 14:46:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Starting a new thread from one in announce:
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP16
Please comment, after which Walter will approve. Walter's
approval means that he would approve a pull request
implementing DIP16 (subject to regular correctness checks).
Destroy!
Andrei
Hooray! I was loudly complaining about this issue for years. I'm
glad this is finally going to be taken care of.
1. Regarding naming - as others mentioned it's inconvenient for
sorting. How about changing the file extension instead of the
name? e.g have a "algorithm.package" instead of "algorithm.d"?
The compiler could even ignore the name of the file as long as it
has the proper extension - check for existence of "*.package".
The compiler should enforce that there's at most one such package
file to prevent ambiguities - regardless of the chosen naming
scheme.
2. Regarding documentation - I'd encourage (via a D style
guideline) putting the overview of the package in this file. A
tool such as Ruby's codnar would nicely compliment the reference
generated by DDoc. see https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/gems/codnar
for details.
3. std.algorithm should be deprecated and eventually removed. All
code *is* essentially algorithms and as such importing this
module makes as much sense as doing:
import code; // generic much?
4. regarding the look-up rules - I'm unsure about this part of
the proposal. Others already voiced concerns about issues this
might bring.
