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

[Walter Bright]

On 5/2/2021 8:07 AM, Herringway wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 May 2021 at 12:21:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/1/21 4:08 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 4/30/2021 3:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> 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!
> 
> Here's the proposed patch and its review. I believe you may be able to 
> understand why the reviewer didn't do those things. 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2996

Ah, thank you!