finding errors with templates without instantiating them

[monarch_dodra]

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 22:22:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 15:15:39 Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> I'm not against it, but I find it a very small improvement. 
>> Its user
>> base is exactly people who want to write and deploy a template 
>> without
>> ever testing it at all, ever. I have a hard time catering to 
>> that
>> hypothetical crowd.
>
> That crowd deserves whatever bugs they get.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

*cough* Phobos is that crowd *cough*

Seriously. Most new code is tested, however, there is a ton of 
older code that is not only not-tested, but not even *compiled*: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1514

Not that I'm necessarily *for* said feature, but I think we need 
to re-evaluate who this "hypothetical crowd" is, before looking 
down on it.