On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:11:52PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 12/2/14 6:28 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> >Technically, you *can* do that, but it's a lot more verbose (plus,
> >ddoc doesn't know how to generate docs for eponymous templates
> >properly and it looks ugly):
> >
> > template method(R)
> > {
> > import std.range : isInputRange;
> >
> > void method(R range)
> > if (isInputRange!R)
> > { ... }
> > }
>
> That works? I wouldn't expect it to, since the method inside the
> template is not a template.
[...]
Argh, you're right, that doesn't compile. The sig constraint has to be
turned into a static if, which has different semantics, or attached to
the template declaration, which defeats the purpose. :-(
T
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