Rebooting the __metada/__mutable discussion

[Zach Tollen]

On Friday, 8 April 2022 at 08:23:34 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Yes. I do not understand why so many people are so keen to 
> conflate entirely different things into the same concepts. 
> That's just bad language design.

No it's not. Bad language design is when you *arbitrarily* 
conflate different things without first examining the pros and 
cons. But it's also bad language design not to be open to the 
possibility of a conflation of different things which ends up 
being harmonious and easy to explain.