Can std.conv.toImpl please be deprecated

[WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 15 April 2016 at 17:23:26 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> Before I opened a PR, I wanted to get some second opinions.
>
> There is no reason IMO that the various overloads of toImpl 
> should be public. Having the internal functionality of a parent 
> function, in this case to, be exposed like this causes:
>
> 1. The docs to be cluttered with useless info. Anything 
> pertinent can be moved to the to docs.
> 2. The function cannot be refactored because its guts are shown 
> to the world
>
> Also, there is no reason that anyone should use toImpl over to. 
> So can I please mark toImpl as deprecated in order to clean up 
> std.conv?

you need to use toImpl if you want to convert a number to/from a 
specific base! I use that a lot when converting hexadecimal values