Function pointers/delegates default args were stealth removed?

[Walter Bright]

On 8/27/2012 7:03 AM, foobar wrote:
> This discussion is all sorts of wrong. Whoever said that defargs are metadata
> (Manu?) was right. Therefore it would make sense to implement a general metadata
> facility for D and use *that* for defargs. C++11 has annotations, so that's the
> place to start looking at. D has already enough of those pesky special case
> features, let's not add yet another one at the expense of a more general
> metadata/annotation mechanism which eventually would be added anyway due to
> popular demand.

The annotations design discussed was about annotating declarations, not types.