D benchmark code review

[Chris Cain]

On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 20:37:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 20:00:30 UTC, Brian Rogoff 
> wrote:
>>> "not-operator"? "Anything" is too vague and not true. You 
>>> probably can't use these: ][+=-_,.|`\/"'><;:}{%^&*
>
> Depends on the parser-tech. Modern parsers (GLR?) can handle 
> complex grammars. In D template syntax looks like it has been 
> added as an afterthought.

I'm kind of taking this as "I don't know of any specific better 
alternative, but I'm not 100% satisfied in this and we have 
awesome technology, so a better solution must exist". I don't 
really know how else to interpret that.