Why does D not have generics?

[Bruce Carneal]

On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 05:39:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 00:03:00 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
> wrote:
>> You can transform to a canonical relop form wherever you'd 
>> like, of course, but mapping on entry and unmapping on 
>> retrieval or exit from a collection library would, as you 
>> might imagine, lower conversion overhead for the second and 
>> subsequent relops, reduce bloat, and enable kernel fusion.
>
> The problem is little endian. Ascii strings will have to be 
> reversed. The order of two 32 bit ints have to be reversed. 
> These issues are not present for big endian...

It sounds like mappings to arbitrary precision big endian 
unsigned is where you're headed currently.

Implementing relop-unifying xforms to whatever form you actually 
choose should not be difficult.  You have the types in hand so 
you're looking at a specialized binary serialization problem.  
Coming back out again is trickier I think.