RFC: moving forward with @nogc Phobos

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 10:49:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> auto setExtension(MemoryManagementPolicy mmp = gc, R1, R2)(R1 
> path, R2 ext)
> if (...)
> {
>     static if (mmp == gc) alias S = string;
>     else alias S = RCString;
>     S result;
>     ...
>     return result;
> }

Is this practically feasible without blowing up Phobos several 
times in size and complexity?

And I'm not sure adding a template parameter to every function is 
going to work well, what with all the existing template 
parameters - especially the optional ones.