More complexity creep in Phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/27/19 10:45 PM, Seb wrote:
> See https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3770 for the historical reason.

Thanks. Yep, the proverbial good intentions paving the road to hell.

>> I hope there's not much more of this nonsense, because it all should 
>> be deprecated with fire.
> 
> Then we would have to deprecate more than half of Phobos, because a lot 
> of similar cruft got aggregated over the last ten years. Many of these 
> crufts can't be as easily deprecated as this example...

"More than half" would be an exaggeration and as such of limited 
usefulness. I looked at a few more modules and they're in better shape.