On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 21:17:21 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On May 8, 2012, at 9:35 AM, foobar wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:59:43 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:48:27 UTC, foobar wrote:
[...], what if I find it useful to use e.g. FORTRAN code,
should the relevant functions also be in the stdlib?
No, FORTRAN has absolutely nothing to do with D. C, on the
other hand, does. Both druntime and Phobos depend heavily on
the C stdlib. The GC uses malloc/free, std.stdio.File is a
wrapper around FILE*, etc.
Irrelevant. For all I care druntime could be implemented in
Klingon. That doesn't mean its API needs to include Klingon as
well. That's called "encapsulation".
This is difficult to do with the module system. You'd have to
hand-craft .di files with the stdc headers left out to avoid
bundling them in the distro. They could go into core.internal
I suppose though.
Having an internal package is a good idea. Don did the same for
the Math code. More over, the general issue with the module
system should be fixed. There was a recent discussion about
Andrei's DIP, precisely about addressing this problem.
