Postfix type notation - readability and parsing?

[Paul Backus]

On Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 19:43:31 UTC, aliak wrote:
> Thanks for that code above!
>
> And hmm.. __GENSYM__ ... is this documented anywhere? (I found 
> a post by you on the forum about it but nothing in the docs)

`gensym` is a function in some Lisp-family languages that's used 
to generate unique ientifiers for use in macros. [1] It sounds 
like __GENSYM__ is a proposed version of this for D, implemented 
as a compiler builtin like __FILE__ and __LINE__.

[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_gensym.htm