[phobos] Proposal of StopWatch module

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/19/2010 09:47 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> As I'm sure you know we're trying to help the matter with library-based
>> approaches, but leaving straight in the language a feature that is impossible
>> to make safe is not admissible. Walter and I agree that scope must be
>> abolished.
>
> Cast and union can't be made safe either.. should they be removed?  Why
> not push scope out of the safed subset and leave the tool around where
> it's useful?

Cast and union must stay primitives because they can't be done in a 
library. I'd remove them if I could, but doing so would strictly reduce 
the language's power.

Andrei