Generality creep

[Luís Marques]

On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 17:04:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> The overall message is we got bogged down on the "wrong" side 
> of generality - cross-cutting and nonscalable code additions to 
> support unprincipled and low-impact corner cases.

Having a document that formally specifies what a range is and 
what its properties are might have helped with that and a lot 
more. It would still help with all of the issues yet to come.