Beta D 2.069.0-b1

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:57:03 UTC, Meta wrote:
> I don't know how much metaprogramming-heavy generic code you've 
> written, but I can say from first-hand experience that there is 
> such a thing as Hell, and it is called Optional Parens.
>
> Jokes aside, I've finally fixed (read: worked around using 
> awful hacks) a bug where the compiler was complaining about 
> either "Type.memberFunction is not callable with arguments ()" 
> or "Need 'this' for Type.memberFunction". I love optional 
> parens in regular code, especially range-based code (doesn't 
> everybody?), but I desperately want a way to ensure that the 
> symbol that I'm trying to pass to a template function won't be 
> interpreted as a function call instead.

Well, in order to pass the result of a function call to a 
template parameter means that the function must be evaluated at 
compile time, which is not always possible, so it probably 
doesn't make sense to call a function when passed as a template 
argument.