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

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, March 16, 2017 19:53:14 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> On 3/16/17 9:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > I completely agree that we should try and make the template constraints
> > on public functions in Phobos - and other libraries be simple - and try
> > and restrict a lot of the more complicated stuff to internals.
>
> Acta, non verba!
>
> We all are in violent agreement about this, yet there continues to be
> prolific discussion about it. Directing that energy toward simple,
> almost mechanical pull requests that merge unnecessary overloads would
> work wonders. -- Andrei

Yes, but the main point of this thread was to discuss what to do about the
various string-related traits not about converting overloaded templated
functions into static ifs. That part was already agreed upon previously and
IMHO is largely orthogonal to the string-related traits. It's just that H.S.
Teoh thinks that that then fixes the string-related traits with the idea
that they should be changed to private inside of Phobos instead of public
for folks to use in their own libraries, because the public-facing template
constraints would mostly not be using them, and I don't agree with that at
all. If Phobos needs them, then 3rd party libraries will as well, and
they're already public. That's primarily why this discussion has dragged on.

- Jonathan M Davis