Exceptional coding style

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Well, initially it was just a harmless joke about some unique D 
features. It is digitalmars.D newsgroup after all, no idea why 
you have taken this so seriously.

But well, if you want to take this seriously, then I need to 
state that I can't agree with "Only if the increase in ugliness 
is worth the ease of editing.". Prevention of copy paste is 
always worth any additional ugliness or incomfort it brings to 
programmer. Because as programmer count and program support 
lifetime grows any copy-paste is almost doomed to become a bug. 
And ugly code is just ugly. Being ugly is not a bug.

I am using C-macros of preventing copy-paste all the time, by the 
way, when coding plain C. This is our general team policy. And 
despite C macros are so bad, in the end of the day it is still 
worth it.

It is sometimes a rather complex task of using generic toolchain 
properly, though - I am sad that because of widespread prejudice 
overall average level of meta-programming culture is rather low 
and can result in what you have called 
MyClassOperatorMixinTemplate.