On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 03:02:48AM +0000, Dicebot wrote: > On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 03:00:11 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: > >On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 02:55:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>People who want auto-expanding template argument lists can still do > >>this: > > > >It's not perfectly clear, but it looks to me that the DIP suggests > >removing the auto-expanding property of template argument lists. > > No, it would have changed language feature which is deeply > integrated with lot of stuff and thus is untouchable. This proposal > is only about Phobos and documentation.
That's what I thought. To make template argument lists non-expanding would basically require a rewrite of the compiler, since it's deeply integrated into compiler internals right now. And it would result in a language so foreign to existing user code that it might well be D3. It *might* be a possibility in the far future when we're ready to talk about D3, but that doesn't seem likely for the next 10 years (at least). T -- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all. -- Larry Wall
