syntax sugar: std.path::buildPath instead of from!"std.path".buildPath

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 14:01:28 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> It still has a cargo cult flavor because it introduces a new 
> scope, which kinda misses the point of static if.

That's an understatement.

Having static if introduce a new scope makes static if useless. 
Creating a new scope means that code duplication inside of a 
function is now a must. At that point you might as well just make 
what you were going to put in the other static if branch as a 
different overload.

It also means design by introspection/range composition is now 
impossible.