On 06/11/2010 10:13, Don wrote:
Trass3r wrote:
In the past template mixins were a neat special usecase of templates.
Now with the "mixin template()" syntax they've become a separate thing
because you can add special code for handling them, e.g. allowing them
to add constructors to classes.
The question is: what is their right to exist? Is there anything you
can do with them you can't with string mixins (or vice versa)?
I've personally never seen a use for template mixins.
They are handly for boiler plate code that you sometimes just can't avoid.
When you do that stuff template mixins are nicer to work with than
string mixins, but I keep hitting forward reference bugs with them in
newer versions of DMD so they've become less useful.
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