Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 16:54:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Dicebot:
>
>> Is anyone aware why this counter appoach was used instead?
>
> It's not sound, it's a hack. Putting unreliable hacks in a 
> standard library is very bad. It's even worse than the problems 
> that Walter has listed for __COUNT__ (I didn't ask for that 
> count in my enhancement request. If you have to copy it's often 
> better to copy from Lisp/ML/Ada instead of C++).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

It is pretty much default technique used any time new template 
instance needs to be forced. Sound or not, I am not aware of any 
other even remotely reliable library approaches (it works pretty 
good for me actually).