Another idiom I wish were gone from phobos/druntime

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On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 16:34:38 UTC, Zach the Mystic 
wrote:
> Can you name one, or even imagine one? Bear in mind people like 
> Andrei and myself do not like to read or write the later form 
> and will use it much less, regardless of benefit.

Daniel Murphy has (function stubs with `assert(0)`), here:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/maud7e$1j3u$1@digitalmars.com?page=7#post-mavf13:24130j:241:40digitalmars.com