Why is phobos so wack?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 17:13:11 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> To answer the part "why" about them sucking, is that they are 
> generic.

Eh, that's not really why... this is just a crappy 
implementation. We can do a lot better with the library and a lot 
better with the compiler without losing any of the genericness.

> Were join() just a regular function taking two strings, or two 
> interfaces which string would implement, the messages would be 
> better.

Better yes, but still actually a bit crappy. I have one step of 
an improvement in the works: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6806

Consider something similar to that for the constraints too. It 
could highlight that you passed a string instead of a "range of 
ranges" and you'd have a pretty good idea at a glance, even with 
the generic templates.

> About C++ from what I've heard, generic error messages there 
> are not only much worse than others, they are much worse than 
> even D template errors!

Indeed.