On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:07:59 +0200, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>
wrote:
1) The specification is clear that the if the template has only
one member and the member has the same name with the template's,
the member is implicitly referred to in the instantiation. The
template octal has two members, so the program should not really
be compiling, and yet it does. Is this a compiler bug?
If the spec says that you can only have one member in an eponymous
template,
then it's wrong and needs to be updated. All of the symbols which don't
match
the template name are private and are used only as helpers. TDPL (The D
Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu) gives the correct
description.
And those symbols are only private if there is a member that matches the
template name. Otherwise you'd have to resort to ugkly hacks to keep more
than one piece of information in a template.
--
Simen
