On Thursday, 15 July 2021 at 21:23:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
My personal favorite approach to D template functions is to not
think of them as templates in the first place, but rather as
functions with *compile-time* parameters (in addition to the
usual runtime parameters).
Thanks - that *does* seem like a helpful analogy.
D's generics look pretty powerful to people like me who have only
encountered them in Java and C#. I'm not writing libraries so I
probably don't need to get too deep into the weeds, but they are
clearly one of the standout features and well worth digging into!
