Re: If statements and unused template parameters in Phobos documentation

2020-12-20 Thread Rekel via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 13:58:00 UTC, Max Haughton wrote: The if is a template constraint. Ah sorry! I must have missed that part of the dlang tour. (https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/template-meta-programming) Thanks a lot!

Re: If statements and unused template parameters in Phobos documentation

2020-12-20 Thread Max Haughton via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 13:51:08 UTC, Rekel wrote: I found a lot of the Phobos documentation to contain template arguments and if statements that made no sense to me, for example: ``` uint readf(alias format, A...) ( auto ref A args ) if (isSomeString!(typeof(format))); uint

If statements and unused template parameters in Phobos documentation

2020-12-20 Thread Rekel via Digitalmars-d-learn
I found a lot of the Phobos documentation to contain template arguments and if statements that made no sense to me, for example: ``` uint readf(alias format, A...) ( auto ref A args ) if (isSomeString!(typeof(format))); uint readf(A...) ( scope const(char)[] format, auto ref A args ); ```