Future of string lambda functions/string predicate functions

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On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 18:18:32 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> Could work since with a bit of compiler magic (expression 
> alias).
> Or even
> alias f = typeof(_ + _);
> with expression templates. Sounds like a solution but that 
> would destroy the easy ordering of arguments...

And here one should probably stop for a while and ask: "is it 
worth it?"