On 3/8/11 8:20 PM, spir wrote:
[…] Yet another syntactic special-case for special cases in the language. In this case, there are even 3 ways to write the same thing: […]
I don't quite get how you think this would be a syntactic special case. As Steve pointed out, »class Foo(T) {}« is merely syntax sugar for »template Foo(T) { class Foo{} }«, and because of this, it would rather be a special case *not* to allow referring to Foo using just that name. When considering this, don't forget that templates in D are little more than parametrized, named scopes.
I guess you could argue that »class Foo(T)« as a shorthand is an unnecessary special case, but I very much prefer the benefit in brevity here…
David
