On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:27:11PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > > Templates are stencils for generating code. There's nothing > > confusing about that, unless you try to shoehorn them into a > > preconceived mental model of functions that take parameters and > > return something. > > > > Granted, proper tutorials need to be written and put in a prominent > > place so that newbies start on the right footing. > > > > https://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/template-primer-in-d > > Written. It'd just need to be linked from somewhere, or copied somewhere. [...]
Ah, I remember that. Yes, we do need to link to this from somewhere prominent, so that newbies have a higher chance of reading it *before* they decide to dive off the 3-storey diving board into std.algorithm. T -- It's amazing how careful choice of punctuation can leave you hanging:
