Why does D not have generics?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 06:57:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 06:33:13 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
> wrote:
>> It sounds like mappings to arbitrary precision big endian 
>> unsigned is where you're headed currently.
>
> More like converting to ulong snd ucent. But CPUs have 
> instructions for endian conversion so that is ok. Converting 
> from signed to unsigned is just one add.

Or, more precisely, make it architecture dependent. I guess that 
is the crux.

The library has to provide inline-able conversion operations.