Comparison chart of D and C++ templates
Don Clugston
dac at nospam.com.au
Fri Jan 19 10:11:55 PST 2007
Lutger wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/template-comparison.html
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Informative chart, links to spec and other articles about templates
> might be useful.
>
> Not sure if these belong to the chart, but I find the following features
> quite valuable with or in conjunction with templates:
>
> - Static assert, a no-brainer.
> - Compile time messages, with static assert for example. I guess this by
> virtue of the .mangleof property with compile time string parsing? (I'm
> thinking of Don Clugston's meta.nameof library). Anyway the ability to
> easily give meaningful and readable error messages without resorting to
> compiler output parsing like STLlift can be a big time-saver.
> - 'is' expressions
All of these together give a large part of the functionality of C++0x
concepts.
void remove_if(T)(T start, T end) {
static assert(isForwardIterator!(T), prettytypeof!(T) ~ " is not a
forward iterator");
...
}
> - templated mixins
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