<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Even better would be something like the ‘Haskell Platform’ i.e. a curated collection</div><div class="">of core packages that share the same ‘look&feel’ with the stdlib. Or something similar to the </div><div class="">boost libraries in C++. Or even something like the javax libraries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the stdlib could stay fit, while we could still enjoy a collection of standard packages for common</div><div class="">functionality.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-g.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Aug 2017, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1000 to this.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 31, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Hooman Mehr via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Maybe we need more than one level of standard library: The core (which is most of what we have now (but maybe not all of it) and multiple opt-in standard modules for hash functions, math, specialized data structures, etc.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>