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[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 at 08:36:53 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> You'll have to get used to the exclamation mark, otherwise 
> you'll never be able to fully appreciate D's generic 
> programming. I quite like it - I don't think there's anything 
> objectively ugly about it.

You subjectively think that there is nothing objectively ugly 
about it? :-) It is objectively ugly because "!" implies a 
boolean expression, but that is off-topic.

I agree that chaining of filters and sorting rules is a good 
solution, provided that you have a high level optimizer capable 
of transforming the chain into something optimal. You basically 
need some sort of term-rewriting.