Yet another terrible compile time argument proposal

[Paul Backus]

On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 21:27:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Friday, 12 January 2024 at 22:35:54 UTC, Walter Bright 
> [wrote](https://forum.dlang.org/post/unseru$167e$1@digitalmars.com):
>> Given the interest in CTFE of istrings, I have been thinking 
>> about making a general use case out of it instead of one 
>> specific to istrings.
>
> Been also thinking about this and I have the following 
> conclusions:
>
> [...]

Is any of this really necessary at all?

D already has a way to pass data to a function at compile time 
(template parameters). It's not perfect, sure, and there are some 
use-cases where it's a bit awkward, but it gets the job done. Do 
we really need to add a whole new language feature just to have a 
second, slightly-different way of doing basically the same thing?

In C++, this approach to language design has lead to having 
[seven different types of initialization][1], among other 
disasters. If we follow the same path with D, we will end up in 
the same place.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/initialization