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Bruce Adams (3/3) Nov 08 2007 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands for...

Kirk McDonald (12/17) Nov 08 2007 Implicit Function Template Instantiation

Bill Baxter (5/25) Nov 08 2007 I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit

BCS (4/32) Nov 08 2007 I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for ...

Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= (8/42) Nov 09 2007 Hmm, you could extend it to classes too:

Regan Heath (3/48) Nov 09 2007 So lets drop the F, IFTI -> ITI (Implicit Template Instantiation).

Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= (4/52) Nov 09 2007 I'm not saying we should get this feature. :) Just wanted to point out t...

Bill Baxter (10/15) Nov 08 2007 Google is your friend. It's the International Foundation of Technology

Kyle Furlong (3/24) Nov 08 2007 Its just a colloquialism of the D newsgroup, if you've been around, you

Walter Bright (4/6) Nov 08 2007 It came about because early D templates didn't have it. Lots of people

Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 yeah.who.co.uk> writes:

Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands for since
I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put me out of my
mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR

Regards,

Bruce.

Nov 08 2007

Kirk McDonald <kirklin.mcdonald gmail.com> writes:

Bruce Adams wrote:
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands for since
I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put me out of my
mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
 
 Regards,
 
 Bruce.

Implicit Function Template Instantiation

The ability to, given a function template:

    void foo(T)(T t) {}

Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:

    foo(12);
    foo("apples");

-- 
Kirk McDonald
http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com
Pyd: Connecting D and Python
http://pyd.dsource.org

Nov 08 2007

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Kirk McDonald wrote:
 Bruce Adams wrote:
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands 
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put 
 me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR

 Regards,

 Bruce.

 
 Implicit Function Template Instantiation
 
 The ability to, given a function template:
 
    void foo(T)(T t) {}
 
 Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:
 
    foo(12);
    foo("apples");
 

I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit 
instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know why 
D has it's own acronym for this?

--bb

Nov 08 2007

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to Bill,

 Kirk McDonald wrote:
 
 Bruce Adams wrote:
 
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please
 put me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
 
 Regards,
 
 Bruce.
 

 Implicit Function Template Instantiation
 
 The ability to, given a function template:
 
 void foo(T)(T t) {}
 
 Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:
 
 foo(12);
 foo("apples");

 I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit
 instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know
 why D has it's own acronym for this?
 
 --bb
 

I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for
function 
templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is to long and 
II is to ambiguous.

Nov 08 2007

Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

BCS wrote:

 Reply to Bill,
 
 Kirk McDonald wrote:
 
 Bruce Adams wrote:
 
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please
 put me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
 
 Regards,
 
 Bruce.
 

 Implicit Function Template Instantiation
 
 The ability to, given a function template:
 
 void foo(T)(T t) {}
 
 Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:
 
 foo(12);
 foo("apples");

 I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit
 instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know
 why D has it's own acronym for this?
 
 --bb
 

 
 I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for
 function templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is to
 long and II is to ambiguous.

Hmm, you could extend it to classes too:

class Foo(T) {
  this(T t) { }
}

void foo() {
  auto bar = new Foo(5);
}

Nov 09 2007

Regan Heath <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

Jari-Matti M�kel� wrote:
 BCS wrote:
 
 Reply to Bill,

 Kirk McDonald wrote:

 Bruce Adams wrote:

 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please
 put me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR

 Regards,

 Bruce.

 Implicit Function Template Instantiation

 The ability to, given a function template:

 void foo(T)(T t) {}

 Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:

 foo(12);
 foo("apples");

 I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit
 instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know
 why D has it's own acronym for this?

 --bb

 I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for
 function templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is to
 long and II is to ambiguous.

 
 Hmm, you could extend it to classes too:
 
 class Foo(T) {
   this(T t) { }
 }
 
 void foo() {
   auto bar = new Foo(5);
 }

So lets drop the F, IFTI -> ITI (Implicit Template Instantiation).

Regan

Nov 09 2007

Jari-Matti =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

Regan Heath wrote:

 Jari-Matti M�kel� wrote:
 BCS wrote:
 
 Reply to Bill,

 Kirk McDonald wrote:

 Bruce Adams wrote:

 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please
 put me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR

 Regards,

 Bruce.

 Implicit Function Template Instantiation

 The ability to, given a function template:

 void foo(T)(T t) {}

 Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:

 foo(12);
 foo("apples");

 I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit
 instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know
 why D has it's own acronym for this?

 --bb

 I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for
 function templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is
 to long and II is to ambiguous.

 
 Hmm, you could extend it to classes too:
 
 class Foo(T) {
   this(T t) { }
 }
 
 void foo() {
   auto bar = new Foo(5);
 }

 
 So lets drop the F, IFTI -> ITI (Implicit Template Instantiation).

I'm not saying we should get this feature. :) Just wanted to point out there
are some arbitrary limitations in D that are not necessarily needed. Not
sure if this is one of those without further research.

Nov 09 2007

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Bruce Adams wrote:
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands for since
I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put me out of my
mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
 
 Regards,
 
 Bruce.

Google is your friend.  It's the International Foundation of Technology 
and Investment:  http://www.ifti.ru/?en

Just kidding.  Everyone knows it's really the "Intitute de Formacion 
Transpersonal Integral".  http://www.ifti.cl/

Ok, really it's an acronym that no-one else in the world seems to use 
standing for "Implicit Function Template Instantiation".  But it can 
also stand in for "I Feel Totally Imbecilic", which describes the effect 
using made-up acronyms such as IFTI has on people.

--bb

Nov 08 2007

Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Bruce Adams wrote:
 Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands 
 for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put 
 me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR

 Regards,

 Bruce.

 
 Google is your friend.  It's the International Foundation of Technology 
 and Investment:  http://www.ifti.ru/?en
 
 Just kidding.  Everyone knows it's really the "Intitute de Formacion 
 Transpersonal Integral".  http://www.ifti.cl/
 
 Ok, really it's an acronym that no-one else in the world seems to use 
 standing for "Implicit Function Template Instantiation".  But it can 
 also stand in for "I Feel Totally Imbecilic", which describes the effect 
 using made-up acronyms such as IFTI has on people.
 
 --bb

Its just a colloquialism of the D newsgroup, if you've been around, you 
know what it means.

Nov 08 2007

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Kyle Furlong wrote:
 Its just a colloquialism of the D newsgroup, if you've been around, you 
 know what it means.

It came about because early D templates didn't have it. Lots of people 
here talked about implicit function template instantiation, and 
eventually it just got shortened to ifti.

Nov 08 2007

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