On 10/27/12 8:23 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
Yeah, it's certainly not going to be easy. It's unfortunate that D adopted the whole C++ style "glorified macros" approach to templates -- it makes it very difficult to reason about (or automate reasoning about) the semantics of your code.
I think D has reached a sweet spot with restricted templates.
Retrofitting some sort of structure to templates will be a Herculean task, but I think it has to happen. It is clear to me that the development process we use now (write the template, try a few instantiations, pray) is unsustainable beyond simple templates.
It's not clear to me at all. The mechanism works very well and is more expressive than alternatives used by other languages.
Andrei
