On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 00:16:45 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I do understand that expression templates aren't very sexy, and
are kinda hard to wrap one's head around. But they're not so
bad from the perspective of the user of the expression
templates, and I really think that the limits of existing
features should be explored before inventing wholesale new ones
that may turn out to be redundant.
My very first project in D involved quite a lot of them. So I
very aware of what they are.
The whole idea is to be able to extends that to statement and
declarations. Making what expression templates can do is simply a
side effect so to speak.
