ranges of characters and the overabundance of traits that go with them

[Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 07:44:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> So, if we deprecated isSomeString, we'd be telling a lot of 
> folks to change their code when it's perfectly fine as-is. I 
> agree that it would be nice to fix isSomeString, but I just 
> don't think that it's reasonable to deprecate it at this point.

If you can't deprecate, what about only deprecating the enum 
behaviour (e.g. insert a static assert if anybody uses an enum on 
it)?