Unified handling of basic and user-defined type proposal

[Rob T]

On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 19:07:41 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 18:38:57 UTC, Eldar 
> Insafutdinov wrote:
>> I also believe that it is possible to introduce these changes 
>> in an iterative manner. Each step will provide significant 
>> improvements to the language. If everybody agrees that this 
>> proposed change is worth exploring into and has chances to be 
>> included in D, I am willing to commit my time to implement it.
>
> I think the main question is: How many breaking changes to the 
> *language* will it introduce? Unless I'm missing something, 
> there should not be to many besides some template matching 
> special cases (alias T vs. T, ...), so I think this would in 
> theory have good changes of making it in. However, this all 
> depends on Walter being willing to accept such a change to the 
> compiler anyway.
>
> David

At some point the compiler really should be built entirely in D, 
perhaps that would be the time for fixing and simplifying a ton 
of things.

--rt