On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 04:48:45PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 4/9/19 4:31 PM, Ron Tarrant wrote: > > > I'm still struggling to understand templates, but I'll keep at it. [...] > The thing that made it click for me is that a template is very akin to > a macro substitution -- where you just copy and paste the given > parameter wherever its substitute is found. [...]
Yes, templates are, functionally speaking, macros with type safety, and in D's case syntactic sanity, and none of the disadvantages of an actual macro system. T -- Heads I win, tails you lose.
