Reimplementing the bulk of std.meta iteratively

[Bruce Carneal]

On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 04:08:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/28/2020 3:46 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Andrei and I have been mulling over what to do for a while, and 
> have gone through several ideas.
>
> What we're looking for is not a top level solution. We want a 
> fundamental building block, upon which the rest of D's features 
> can exploit naturally and productively. Something that can be 
> explained in 30 seconds.
>
> An example of this is the recent PR for __totype(string), which 
> is the complement to .mangleof. It's main shortcoming is it 
> only works with types. I'm currently working on an idea to make 
> that work for any alias. It's so stupidly simple I'm afraid I'm 
> missing something terribly obvious, so I beg your indulgence 
> while exploring it.
>
> Stay tuned!

Sounds exciting!  Good luck!