Hi Helmut,
> Chris asked me to file this vague idea as a bug to keep track of the
> discussion.
Thanks - after all, not everyone is on IRC and having a concrete, initial
list of patterns is very helpful to think about.
> Now it reads more like this mail should have gone to d-devel.
Hmm, yes I think that would be the best "next step" at this point.
Regards,
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