syntax sugar: std.path::buildPath instead of from!"std.path".buildPath

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-02-14 15:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> How are they so,

Example [1]. That signature spans 8 lines, it took me 10 seconds to find 
the actual function name. Example [2], 5 lines. Adding attributes on top 
of that would increase the length of the signature even more. 
Fortunately templates will infer most attributes.

> and what steps can we take to improve them. Could you
> please give a few examples on how to do things better? Thx! -- Andrei

Well, I would prefer to have template constraints as its own entity in 
the language not not just a bunch of boolean conditions. This has been 
talked about before several times. Something like:

constraint Foo
{
     void foo();
}

void bar(T : Foo)(T t);

[1] 
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/mutation.d#L1682-L1689

[2] 
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/algorithm/mutation.d#L2729-L2733

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg