Is metaprogramming useful?

[Paolo Invernizzi]

We really need a partial rewrite of Phobos, at least the low/level 
always used stuff, in a template-based way.

It would be good to have it in the 1.0, at least because a lot of D 
newbie will LOOK INTO the standard library sources searching for great D 
code.

my 2c
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Paolo Invernizzi

Don Clugston wrote:
> Indeed I have. The tuple stuff makes this all really appealing. In 
> particular, I've played around with a writef() equivalent which checks 
> the parameters for 'easy' cases, and splits it off into:
> -> single string only
> -> strings, chars, and integers
> -> floating point, arrays, and objects.
> 
> This way you can avoid linking in the floating-point conversion code if 
> you're not using it, keeping the code size down. In fact, it ought to be 
> possible to remove the usage of TypeInfo completely, moving it all into 
> compile-time.