__traits so long and ugly, what about ::?

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:28:27 +0300, Ary Manzana <ary at esperanto.org.ar>  
wrote:

> I think :: is not used in the language.
>
> In a recent article about D I saw:
>
> mixin(__traits(identifier, T) ~ " " ~
>        to!string(tolower(__traits(identifier, T)[0])) ~
>        __traits(identifier, T)[1..$] ~ ";");
>
> What if foo::bar were an alias for __traits(foo, bar) ?
>
> The code would look like this:
>
> mixin(T::identifier ~ " " ~
>        to!string(tolower(T::identifier[0])) ~
>        T::identifier[1..$] ~ ";");
>
> What do you think?
>
> Another uses:
>
> __traits(int, isArithmetic) ==> int::isArithmetic
> __traits(C, isAbstractClass) ==> C::isAbstractClass
>
> __traits(hasMember, S, "m") ==> S::hasMember("m")
>
> Well, you get the idea...
>
> :: might be applied to other compile time uses, but I just came up with  
> this...

I agree it is a problem (a small one) but i don't believe it deserves a  
new syntax. Especially not a major one like this.
Like many others i think "meta" is a much better choice.