Re: __traits so long and ugly, what about ::?

[David Nadlinger]

You are not the only one to find __traits ugly – although not directly 
related to your question, it has been proposed several times to ditch 
is(typeof()) and __traits and replace them with a magic »meta« 
namespace. There is even a bug report about it: 
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3702

David