std.jgrandson

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On Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 15:14:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>> 3. Use of "opDispatch" for an open set of members has been 
>> criticized
>> for vibe.data.json before and I agree with that criticism. The 
>> only
>> advantage is saving a few keystrokes (json.key instead of 
>> json["key"]),
>> but I came to the conclusion that the right approach to work 
>> with JSON
>> values in D is to always directly deserialize when/if possible 
>> anyway,
>> which mostly makes this is a moot point.
>
> Interesting. Well if experience with opDispatch is negative 
> then it should probably not be used here, or only offered on an 
> opt-in basis.

I support this opinion. opDispatch looks cool with JSON objects 
when you implement it but it results in many subtle quirks when 
you consider something like range traits for example - most 
annoying to encounter and debug. It is not worth the gain.