Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Walter Bright]

On 12/21/2011 10:36 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> In general, I agree that that's a good policy. How expensive would you
> consider templated functions which aren't used to be with regards to that?
> They don't cost nothing, since they still have to be lexed and parsed, but
> they don't get fully compiled.

The test is to import the module without referencing any functions in it. Check 
if the resulting executable increases in size.

>> Note that a module can be split into sub-modules without changing the
>> interface for the user.
>
> You mean create other modules that get publicly imported by one module? I do
> think that sections of std.datetime would benefit from that.

Yes.