On 21 May 2016 at 19:55, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 08:45:45 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> Constraints are a good first-step in that direction, but they're unwieldy, >> produce the worst looking function signatures (read: documentation) of >> literally any language ever conceived, relatively awkward error feedback, >> and very quickly get out of hand if you have many variations of possible >> constraints. > > > Constraints are enough for simple matters. > As soon as they are used to distinguish between many overloads with > complicated relationships they become slightly crude. > > However this can be worked around with having static ifs and static > asserts(0). > I find myself just one variadic template with a lot of static ifs branches.
I also find myself taking that route when I run into cases where there are numerous constraint combinations. It's better in some ways, but worse in others. I think it simplifies API's, but at the same time, it removes information from the API, and takes away a lot of documentation.
