Reimplementing the bulk of std.meta iteratively

[Stefan Koch]

On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 at 00:03:14 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 29/09/2020 12:37 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> I _could_ give  the alias a physical form at runtime.
>> (By doing the same thing that the reify template does (or 
>> rather will eventually do), that is exporting _all_ the 
>> properties of the type into an object)
>> 
>> However I am not actually sure what the use of this would be.
>> All usage that I have seen, is in generating code, which is 
>> kindof useless if it does not happen at compile time.
>> 
>> Perhaps there are others?
>
> Serialization!

Well that one you would kindof have to do in a template anyway, 
no?