[RFC] std.experimental.concepts

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 26 08:24:53 PDT 2015


On 7/25/15 7:25 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 22:09:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/25/15 5:24 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 13:41:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Now stack these advantages against the advantages of template
>>>> constraints. It's a landslide.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> This is a false dichotomy.
>>
>> We could have both (i.e. add traits to D), but would we want to? --
>> Andrei
>
> Yes. Most template code would benefit from it. For the same reason that
> being able to bypass the type system is important, you also would like
> that most of the code don't.

I think we disagree here. It doesn't seem to me that adding features to 
D is helpful at this point. -- Andrei



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