Jonathan M Davis:
> But what you're doing is basically the same as
> the eponymous template except that it's saving the value to in a function so
> that it can be called at runtime. The gain is 0 and potentially confusing.
> It's no better than
>
> bool compatibleStringsFunc(Strings...)()
> {
> enum retval = compatibleStrings!Strings;
> return retval;
> }
The gain of my version is that it doesn't generate tons of templates. From my
experience such functions lead to faster compile times and less memory used by
the compiler compared to using recursive templates. And for me a foreach is
usually less confusing than recursive templates :-)
Bye,
bearophile
