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

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 16:20:30 UTC, Chris Wright 
wrote:
> The greatest annoyance is if I have to read through several 
> files of phobos sources just to figure out why there's no 
> matching overload for this function call that looks right to me.

I really really REALLY REALLY wish the compiler would tell you at 
least which part of the boolean expression failed. Then, at 
least, you could dig deeper with your own static asserts on those 
individual things or something.

tbh I actually want opt-in XML error messages with obscene levels 
of detail. We'd pwn IDE integration with that and can really save 
programmers wads of time by giving them all the info they 
actually need.

D used to promote its readable error messages as a strength over 
C++. We've fallen far behind in that category now.

  This doc improvement means I only have to go to
> dpldocs.info (which I'm probably already at), search for the 
> term, and click a few times.

indeed, I'm pretty happy with my navigation. And I'm slowly but 
surely fixing the automatic cross referencing. D name lookup 
across modules is kinda hard, this is one place dmd/ddoc would 
have a strong theoretical advantage since it understands the 
semantics and already knows the module graph.

But, I'm already 80% there... and it is yielding pretty great 
results in practice. I'll do alias lookups next time I spend a 
few hours on this (tbh since it is good enough for me, it is all 
low priority relative to the other things I have to do, so it is 
moving slowly now.)