Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 22:46:37 Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Isn't that a compiler and/or linker issue? I mean, if _nothing_ is referenced 
in the module, then shouldn't it never pull anything in and therefore never 
increase the size of the executable?

- Jonathan M Davis