Name That Technique!

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/3/17 6:50 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 03:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>>> On 2/3/17 10:41 AM, Daniel N wrote:
>
>>>> auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm)
>
>> We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym).
>
> If it's going to stay "imp" (which I initially found confusing; How
> about "Import"?), "the imp idiom" might do but imps have a very
> insignificant appearance in Harry Potter. (There are "Pepper Imps sold
> at Honeydukes in Hogsmeade".)
>
> Ali

https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1756 -- Andrei