On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 11:40:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, September 21, 2012 13:14:56 Jonas Drewsen wrote:
Maybe I wasn't clear in my suggestion. The new syntax in
simply a
way to define a templated function - not a non-templated one
ie:
auto foo(a,b) {}
is exactly the same as
auto foo(A,B)(A a, B b) {}
So all it does is save you a few characters? I don't think that
that's even
vaguely worth it. It complicates the language and doesn't add
any
functionality whatsoever.
Correct. The same with foreach where you also just save some
characters but it is darn nice anyway.
And when you consider that it then makes it _harder_ to quickly
see that a
function is templated, and it potentially makes it easier to
accidentally
templatize a function, I think that it's a net loss even
without considering
the fact that it complicates the language further. And _with_
considering it,
I think that it's definitely more trouble than it's worth.
Fair enough.
-Jonas
