On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 21:04:15 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 09/20/2012 10:52 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
Like it or not, templates still cause a lot of code bloat,
complicate
linking, cannot be virtual, increase compilation resources,
and generate
difficult to understand messages. They are a powerful tool,
but need to
be used wisely.
The proposal does not make wise usage harder. It only makes
usage more
concise in some cases.
Conciseness encourages use, both wise and unwise.
I don't think that templates should have more concise syntax than
non-templates. Having shorter syntax suggests that it should be
the default choice, and it's a bad default choice for most
functions.
