Kinds of containers

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 20:06:41 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/21/2015 03:38 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 19:19:23 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I'd say let's first have a Pope before becoming more Catholic 
>>> than
>>> him. -- Andrei
>>
>> I confess that I really don't understand that one.
>
> "More Catholic than the Pope" = overdoing something all too 
> pedantically. What I mean is: let's get things started and if 
> there's any need for isXxx we'll add them. -- Andrei

In principle, I agree with the sentiment, but I would have 
thought that our experience thus far already showed that being 
imprecise with code involving compile time introspection was 
problematic at best. This sort of thing in static ifs probably 
isn't as bad as it would likely be in template constraints, but 
it seems like way too often we end up with problems like user 
code compiling at first and then not compiling later due to a 
small change in Phobos or dmd, just because someone did something 
differently from what we expected, and the template constraints 
or static ifs didn't take it into account properly.

- Jonathan M Davis