Embrace the from template?

[Mike Franklin]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 06:41:35 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:

> One idea is we could add this template to `object.d`.  This 
> would allow it to be used from any module that uses druntime 
> without having to import it first.  The template itself is also 
> very friendly to "bloat" because it only has a single input 
> parameter which is just a string, extremely easy to memoize.  
> Also, unless it is instantiated, adding it to object.d will 
> have virtually no overhead (just a few AST nodes which would 
> dwarfed by what's already in object.d).  It would also be very 
> easy to add, a single PR with 4 lines of code to druntime and 
> we're done.

I don't know.  It's not a bad idea, but I don't consider it a 
major enabler either.  It's easy enough to just cut and paste it 
to one's arsenal, though I understand the inconvenience of having 
to maintain it in multiple projects.

One thing to consider is `from` is a *very* general word, and if 
it's placed in object.d it might cause naming conflicts.  I'd 
like the name to be more specific, but I know how such naming 
discussions tend to go.

Mike