Another idiom I wish were gone from phobos/druntime

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 01:53:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> It's an example of blindly adhering to the letter of the rule 
> while
> violating the spirit of the rule, which is to make code more 
> readable.
>
>
> T

Ahhh...thanks for this.  I've been searching for an eloquent way 
to say this for a while :)