Proposed Enhancement: Deprecate std.conv.text With 0 Arguments

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On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 16:47:53 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 15:48:06 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> I don't see any problem in deprecating it as std.conv.text
>> with 0 arguments is clearly unintended behavior
>
> I don't see how you can make that claim, take a look at the 
> code again:
>
> private S textImpl(S, U...)(U args)
> {
>     static if (U.length == 0)
>     {
>         return null;
>     }
>     else
>     {
>         auto result = to!S(args[0]);
>         foreach (arg; args[1 .. $])
>             result ~= to!S(arg);
>         return result;
>     }
> }
>
> The zero argument result was clearly an intentional special case

Intentional or not, I don't see any downside to disallowing 
calling text with 0 args (aside from backwards-compatibility 
concerns). It doesn't even return anything useful, just null.