ndslice: feature deprecation voting / discussion

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/02/2016 10:02 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
> Timothee Cour proposed to deprecate arguments without [ ... ] that
> represent shape .
>
>   auto a0=iota(3*4).sliced(3,4); // proposal:deprecate
>   auto a1=iota(3*4).sliced([3,4]);
>   auto a2=iotaSlice(3,4); // proposal:deprecate
>   auto a3=iotaSlice([3,4]);
>   auto a6=slice!int(3,4);// proposal:deprecate
>   auto a4=slice!int([3,4]);
>
>   ... the same for blocks, windows, ... etc.
>
> Mir Issue: https://github.com/libmir/mir/issues/337
>
> Current Yes: Timothee Cour, John Colvin
> Current No : Ilya Yaroshenko, Relja Ljubobratovic
>
> If you want to see the code please use Phobos code (not Mir). Template
> bloat was significantly reduced in
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4823.

My general thinking here is that if we improve compiler technology to 
avoid template bloat, that would "lift all boats" i.e. make everybody's 
life better. So that would be preferable (to the extent possible) to 
requiring user-level idioms. -- Andrei