What's the deal with the massive duplication in std.meta?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/30/2021 3:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> ```D
> template staticIndexOf(T, TList...)
> {
>     enum staticIndexOf = genericIndexOf!(T, TList);
> }
> 
> template staticIndexOf(alias T, TList...)
> {
>     enum staticIndexOf = genericIndexOf!(T, TList);
> }
> ```

I'm curious why genericIndexOf is not renamed to staticIndexOf and the previous 
staticIndexOf templates removed.


> This code should have NEVER been accepted upon review. Instead, the reviewers 
> should have filed a TOP PRIORITY bug report to dmd "Not binding types to alias 
> templates forces unscalable code duplication for all typelist primitives".
> 
> This needs to be fixed, and very urgently.

Please file a bug report!