Tim M Wrote: > >> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > >> > >>> I'm looking for a catchy phrase denoting this D idiom: > >>> > >>> template Blah(Stuff) > >>> { > >>> alias ... Blah; > >>> } > >> > >> verbose templated declaration. > > > > As far as I'm concerned, we've found a winner right here ;) > > What's verbose about a template with a single declaration? > > Verbose adj. "Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number > of words"
Normally you write templated declaration using only one symbol: class Foo(T1,T2) { ... } The need to use verbose form is a sing of syntactical deficiency of the language.