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digitalmars.D - std.csv accepted into Phobos

reply dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:
I'm pleased to announce that, by a vote of 5-1, std.csv has been 
accepted into Phobos.  Also, by a vote of 3-2 with one abstention, the 
community has decided on Version 2 of the library (the one where the 
Record struct, etc. is hidden in a style similar to std.algorithm rather 
than explicitly documented).  Congratulations, Jesse.
Nov 20 2011
next sibling parent reply Jesse Phillips <jessekphillips+d gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:17 -0500, dsimcha wrote:


 I'm pleased to announce that, by a vote of 5-1, std.csv has been
 accepted into Phobos.  Also, by a vote of 3-2 with one abstention, the
 community has decided on Version 2 of the library (the one where the
 Record struct, etc. is hidden in a style similar to std.algorithm rather
 than explicitly documented).  Congratulations, Jesse.


Thank you, and maybe since I'm sure few people were voting specifically 
for how the Exceptions were organized, Nick's suggestion could be added?

One thing to note about the docs is that, if we do get a lot of questions 
around the returned type, it can be expanded again (were as removing 
documentation is just strange).

I don't think I'll be getting a pull request in before the Thanks Giving 
weekend.
Nov 20 2011
next sibling parent Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Sunday, November 20, 2011 20:38:13 Jesse Phillips wrote:

 On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:17 -0500, dsimcha wrote:

 I'm pleased to announce that, by a vote of 5-1, std.csv has been
 accepted into Phobos.  Also, by a vote of 3-2 with one abstention, the
 community has decided on Version 2 of the library (the one where the
 Record struct, etc. is hidden in a style similar to std.algorithm rather
 than explicitly documented).  Congratulations, Jesse.


 
 Thank you, and maybe since I'm sure few people were voting specifically
 for how the Exceptions were organized, Nick's suggestion could be added?


Personally, I would have no problem with you adjusting the exceptions so that 
they were derived from CSVException (possibly changing the current 
CSVException to a new exception and creating a new CSVException which is the 
base type of them all if that makes more sense given the issue with row and 
col). That's a fairly minor part of the API, and in general, I think that it's 
a good idea that exceptions in a module be derived from an exception type 
named after that module if there's more than one exception type in the module, 
since most of the modules in Phobos have an exception type named after 
themselves. So, it increases consisntency and makes it easy to specifically 
catch all exceptions that a particular module throws.


 One thing to note about the docs is that, if we do get a lot of questions
 around the returned type, it can be expanded again (were as removing
 documentation is just strange).


Yeah. Though as i pointed out in another post, it seems to me that the real 
issue is that you're essentially dealing with a completely different return 
type from csvReader based on the Contents type that you give it, which would 
make it desirable to document the two situations as separate functions, but 
the fact that it's the template argument which does it (causing template 
constraints and/or static if to make them different) makes it so that you don't 
actually have two separate signatures to document.

Regardless, documentation can be adjusted (including moving the struct out of 
csvReader if we want to later), but moving a separate struct into a a function 
later breaks code, so making that decision only to decide later that it was a 
bad idea is far more limiting than hiding it first and then changing our minds 
later.

- Jonathan M Davis
Nov 20 2011
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 11/20/2011 12:38 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:

 On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:17 -0500, dsimcha wrote:


 I'm pleased to announce that, by a vote of 5-1, std.csv has been
 accepted into Phobos.  Also, by a vote of 3-2 with one abstention, the
 community has decided on Version 2 of the library (the one where the
 Record struct, etc. is hidden in a style similar to std.algorithm rather
 than explicitly documented).  Congratulations, Jesse.


 Thank you,


And congrats from me as well.
Nov 21 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
Good news, although I still do not think it is a good idea to put it 
straight into std! :) It should be std.data.csv, or std.file.csv or 
std.ff.csv (ff = file formats) or something similar.
Nov 21 2011
parent Jesse Phillips <jessekphillips+d gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:19:48 +0000, Dejan Lekic wrote:


 Good news, although I still do not think it is a good idea to put it
 straight into std! :) It should be std.data.csv, or std.file.csv or
 std.ff.csv (ff = file formats) or something similar.


Well, csv is not the place to start. Discussions about Phobos being flat 
have been many, it is, so we'll get std.csv.
Nov 21 2011
prev sibling parent Somedude <lovelydear mailmetrash.com> writes:
Le 20/11/2011 15:07, dsimcha a écrit :

 I'm pleased to announce that, by a vote of 5-1, std.csv has been
 accepted into Phobos.  Also, by a vote of 3-2 with one abstention, the
 community has decided on Version 2 of the library (the one where the
 Record struct, etc. is hidden in a style similar to std.algorithm rather
 than explicitly documented).  Congratulations, Jesse.


I didn't feel I was qualified to vote, but I feel qualified to add my
congrats as well. :)
Nov 23 2011