food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[Dennis]

On Thursday, 11 April 2019 at 17:52:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Wow. And here I was thinking we have clowny things in the 
> standard library...

I don't get what's clowny about it, it gives a clear name for a 
common function and it hides unnecessary implementation details. 
Do you think properties like int.min are clowny too and that 
people should just write (1 << (int.sizeof*8-1)) or use a D 
equivalent of limits.h?