opMixin or mixin function templates with convenience operator?

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 12 December 2019 at 17:19:35 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Wut...?!  The primary reason I'm using D is *because* of 
> metaprogramming features.  It's one of the things about D that 
> stands out above other languages and differentiates it from 
> them.  For me, it's one of the important things that make it 
> worth using D in spite of whatever other flaws D may have.

You're not the average programmer considering using D. You've got 
years of experience with D, and probably C and C++ as well. 
Metaprogramming has its place. You can definitely overdo it 
though, making your code hard to read and driving folks to other 
languages. Take a look at the use of templates. Do they have a 
place? Sure. But one person after another also complains about 
the difficult of learning the standard library because of the 
incredible overhead.

I feel I have to keep bringing this up, because at least around 
here, there are very few concerns for new users that just want to 
write code.