On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 22:52:20 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
You just illustrated my point exactly. This doesn't scale, you
can't create special rules for every type when you're writing a
library. Nullable is aliased to the get function, which returns
int in this case. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS.
This is the exact use case of alias this and it doesn't work.
My intuition tells me some sort of ducktyping should be possible
here.
Check out
https://code.dlang.org/packages/quack
or else you could define some primitives like isInputRange
eg. SupportsMath(T) or whatever which I guess is what quack is
doing.
