std.templatecons ready for comments

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 22:18:27 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 20:33:37 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij 
> wrote:
>> 10.11.2013 19:30, Ilya Yaroshenko пишет:
>>> Hello, All!
>>>
>>> std.templatecons: Functional style template constructors.
>>>
>>> Documentation:
>>> http://9il.github.io/phobosx/std.templatecons.html
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> https://github.com/9il/phobosx/blob/master/std/templatecons.d
>>>
>>> Note:
>>> dmd >= 2.64 required
>>>
>>> Please destroy!
>>>
>>> I am sorry for my English in sources/docs.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Ilya
>>
>> No more plain modules, please. Call it `std.meta.<something>`.
>>
>> I'm against of including a few range-like (i.e. like 
>> `std.range` and `std.algorithm` stuff) templates like 
>> `RepeatExactly`, `templateStaticMap`, and `templateFilter`. 
>> First these are generic tuple manipulation templates belong to 
>> `std.meta.generictuple` (or how it's called now). Second I'd 
>> like to see one-to-one analog of all (most) applicable range 
>> operation functions for generic tuples in Phobos by merging in 
>> e.g. [1]
>>
>> As for `std.functional`-like template I can't tell much as the 
>> only ones
>>
>> http://denis-sh.bitbucket.org/unstandard/unstd.templates.html
>> [1] 
>> http://denis-sh.bitbucket.org/unstandard/unstd.generictuple.html
>
> How would you feel about me cannibalising parts of that for my 
> attempt at making a proper std.meta module? Conveniently it 
> seems that we use similar core ideas, but have implemented 
> disjoint sets of functionality.

*somewhat disjoint