Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

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On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 19:02:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> I plan to give a talk at Lang.NEXT 
> (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012) with 
> the subject above. There are a few features of D that turned 
> out to be successful, in spite of them being seemingly 
> unimportant or diverging from related consecrated approaches.
>
> What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want to 
> influence answers.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

. ctfe - mixin
. explain them why templates without "static if" is like a
language without "if".
. string, float and anything that matters can be used as template
parameters.