On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 17:20:28 UTC, berni44 wrote:
> How would this better version look like?

I hoped to be able to summarize all the things, that you wrote, but effectivly there is only little, that came up. Thanks anyway to all of you who answered.

From my point of few there are two quite different things to do:

a) Adding, removing and combining modules. That's something, that should be doable, partly by using @deprecation, partly even without. This could be called "incremental improvement".

b) Correcting design mistakes made in the past. This sounds much more difficult, especially when it affects stuff, that is used quite often, like strings and ranges. And there is the fear, that this might bring down D alltogether. This would probably need a "new version".

On 21/10/2019 2:37 AM, berni44 wrote:
> b) Correcting design mistakes made in the past. This sounds much more difficult, especially when it affects stuff, that is used quite often, like strings and ranges. And there is the fear, that this might bring down D alltogether. This would probably need a "new version".

I wouldn't worry about it, we can do it incrementally and limit breakage.

And we can always split out any module that is being removed we have done it before i.e. std.streams