• Nick (4/4) Aug 23 2004 Sorry to drag out this old dead horse again, but can anyone remind me wh...
• J C Calvarese (4/8) Aug 23 2004 I think it was ideology at first, but now it's more because of the incre...

Nick <Nick_member pathlink.com> writes:

Sorry to drag out this old dead horse again, but can anyone remind me why D
doesn't support implicit template instantiation? Is it for ideological reasons,
or because it would be to difficult to implement?

Nick

J C Calvarese <jcc7 cox.net> writes:

In article <cgckfe$2arv$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Nick says...
Sorry to drag out this old dead horse again, but can anyone remind me why D
doesn't support implicit template instantiation? Is it for ideological reasons,
or because it would be to difficult to implement?

Nick

I think it was ideology at first, but now it's more because of the increase of
complexity: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?TemplateInstantiation

jcc7