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Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by tomp on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:11AM (#23007128)
What you're describing has names - structural types, refined types (a.k.a. contracts a.k.a. pre- and post-conditions)...

It's simply a failure of D the language/compiler (and a huge anti-pattern) to not expose internal types in a way that can be displayed to the programmer.

Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by FeepingCreature on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:19AM (#23007205)
No such internal type exists. The range interface is purely a library feature. The problem is that D has no way to include a type constraint as a part of the function type, at present. Something like out template contracts would do it probably.
Re:Better C – A subset of D Programming Language by guai- on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:55PM (#23026999)
java can't express its types in its own syntax either. nor scala, nor sharp.

ceylon could, but they are barely readable anyway.