On Thursday, October 21, 2010 17:05:45 retard wrote: > Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:51:03 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Now, as I said, C++ and D are the only languages I know of which use > > templates. That doesn't mean that other languages do not. Looking at the > > wikipedia page on template metaprogramming, it lists other languages > > such as Eiffel and ML, so presumably those languages have templates of > > some kind. > > I'm not aware of templates in Eiffel or ML, but the WP article also > mentioned Haskell (which you nimbly left out of the list) which indeed > has been extended to support templates in Template Haskell. There are > several similar kind of languages, e.g. MetaOCaml. The original Template > Haskell paper lists some of these.
LOL. Nimbly huh. Well, there was no need to list them all, and it felt really weird to list Haskell when I've used Haskell a fair bit and never heard of any templates of any kind in Haskell. For the purposes of the discussion though, I don't suppose that it matters particularly. The point is that according to wikipedia there are languages other than C++ and D which have template metaprogramming capabilities (and therefore have to have templates). - Jonathan Mdavis
