Proposed Enhancement: Deprecate std.conv.text With 0 Arguments

Meta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 24 09:34:19 PDT 2016


On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 14:15:46 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 23:46:47 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> You are just pushing the problem up one level. Now every 
>> template that call text with a sequence need to do a length 
>> check (and none will).
>
> Indeed, D should try to focus on making generic programming 
> less tedious and more principled.
>
> The problem Meta had was largely due to lack of restrictions in 
> how name lookup/import and functions as properties work. Which 
> is kinda problematic for programming-in-the-large which D is 
> meant to do well.
>
> This is just hacking on band-aids over the symptoms rather than 
> fixing the cause.

Unfortunately they are symptoms we are stuck with so a band-aid 
is the only solution.


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