Why not move cast to the standard library?

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:29:21 -0400, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
[snip]
> A bit of history: A macro system was planned for D2, and 'macro' was  
> made a reserved word. But in discussions at the end of the first D  
> conference, I demonstrated that the combination of CTFE + string mixins,  
> even in D1, was dramatically more powerful than the proposed macros. It  
> became clear that we didn't have a macro design that was anywhere near  
> powerful enough, and macros were postponed to D3. We don't know how they  
> should work.
> By all means make a proposal.

About the only thing I find lacking today is the ability to do zero weight  
expression templates. I think fleshing out the alias keyword might do the  
trick (i.e. alias tuples + alias function parameters) but I haven't though  
it all through.