TypeFunction example: ImplictConvTargets

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 12:30:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/7/20 7:58 AM, claptrap wrote:
>> Lets reverse the roles, say TF were invented first, and 
>> somebody was arguing for templates to be added now. The TP 
>> version would be a couple of stdlib calls and the template 
>> version a whole page.
>
> Incumbency is a huge matter in programming language design. Of 
> course I would not propose another way of doing the same thing.

I just looked up Incumbency, but the German translation was 'Time 
someone has been in office' ...
I am not seeing how these things relate.
Perhaps you can say this in different words?