Proposal: Replace __traits and is(typeof(XXX)) with a 'magic namespace'.

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com> wrote:
> rmcguire, el  3 de noviembre a las 15:11 me escribiste:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> I really like 'static' as the namespace, it would be awesome if it did not just
>> contain 'meta' stuff.
>>
>> Could we lose 'pragma', 'typeof', unary 'is', 'typeid', '__traits'.
>>
>> It makes a lot of sense to just say to someone "if you want to do something at
>> compile time, just check the 'static' documentation".
>
> static.if(...) {
>        static.foreach(...) {
>                static.assert(...) {
>                }
>        }
> }
>
> =P
>

At first I thought this was another joke about how overused "static"
is.  But actually it does kinda make sense here.

--bb