On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:17:18 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Don wrote:
[I'm moving this from deep inside a TDPL thread, since I think it's
important]
is(typeof(XXX)) is infamously ugly and unintuitive
__traits(compiles, XXX) is more comprehensible, but just as ugly.
They are giving metaprogramming in D a bad name. I think we need to
get rid of both of them.
A very easy way of doing this is to replace them with a 'magic
namespace' -- so that they _look_ as though they're functions in a
normal module.
Names which have been suggested include 'meta', 'traits', 'scope',
'compiler'. Personally I think 'meta' is the nicest (and I suggested
two of the others <g>).
Another keyword, sigh...
Wouldn't meta *replace* a keyword? i.e. no more __traits.
Maybe I misunderstand the proposal, but that's what I thought.
-Steve
