On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 23:46:47 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
You are just pushing the problem up one level. Now every template that call text with a sequence need to do a length check (and none will).
Indeed, D should try to focus on making generic programming less tedious and more principled.
The problem Meta had was largely due to lack of restrictions in how name lookup/import and functions as properties work. Which is kinda problematic for programming-in-the-large which D is meant to do well.
This is just hacking on band-aids over the symptoms rather than fixing the cause.
