Goofy code means opportunities in language design

[Stefan Koch]

On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 14:10:58 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Making a pass through Phobos code is very instructive. I find 
> all kinds of goofy code that really means the language doesn't 
> allow people to do what they want to do. So they need to write 
> all sorts of oddities.

Yep. type functions try to address one instance of those issues.