core.traits?

[Manu]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 2:04 PM H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 09:49:58PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 21:12:54 UTC, Manu wrote:
> > > So, druntime has core.internal.traits where a bunch of std.traits have
> > > been mirrored to support internal machinery within druntime.
> > > This is clear evidence that a lot of these traits are really
> > > super-critical to doing basically anything interesting with D.
> > > I have experience with no-phobos projects in the past where I've been
> > > frustrated that I had to mirror all the traits I needed manually.
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > I would go even one step further and move everything and just alias things
> > in std.traits, s.t. no breakage happens.
>
> I concur!  We've been adding ugly nasty hacks to druntime, or writing
> code in circumlocutous ways, for far too long now, all because certain
> basic traits happen to be in std.traits and it's verboten to import
> Phobos from druntime.  It's time to revisit that decision.  The more
> complex traits should remain in Phobos in order not to complicate
> druntime too much, but the basic ones needed also in druntime should
> moved into druntime, instead of copy-pasta or roll-your-own in druntime.
>
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> It's amazing how careful choice of punctuation can leave you hanging:

Great! So, who's gonna do it?
I'm already overloaded with these sorts of refactors >_<