Templates considered impressive

[Andy Valencia]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2024 at 11:45:35 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 October 2024 at 05:44:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> why spend the time and effort when you could have just done:
>>
>> ```
>> import std.conv;
>
> theres a bunch of relivent tradeoffs and phoboes doesnt make a 
> good set of them

To be fair, although Phobos sometimes has shockingly large code 
expansion for modest functions, in this case "123.456".to!double 
comes to 27k, which seems quite reasonable, even to this old 
1802/6502/8080/z80/PDP-11 coder.

Thanks for the pointers to the numerous ways std.conv can be used!

Andy