Templates lots of newbie qs.

[Chris Warwick]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "Chris Warwick" <sp at m.me.not> wrote in message 
> news:espgo1$16ge$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> IFTI?
>
> ...you can just type "functionName(params)".
>
> IFTI stands for "Implicit Function Template Instantiation."  When you 
> write a templated function:
>
> T func(T)(T val)
> {
>    return val;
> }
>
> You don't want to have to type out:
>
> func!(int)(4);
> func!(char[])("hi");
>
> So IFTI can implicitly determine what T should be by looking at the 
> parameter list:
>
> func(4); // T is determined to be int
> func("hello"); // T is determined to be char[]
>
> It's a very useful feature.

So say you have the following...

int indexOf(T)(T[] arr, T item)
{
    // search for and return index
}

class Foo()
{
    Bar[] fitems;
    int indexOf(Bar b)
    {
        fitems.indexOf(b);   // <--- name clash
    }
}

How do you get fitems.indexOf to resolve to the templated array property and 
not the local function of the same name? Obviously it should resolve to the 
local symbol but i cant figure out how to help teh compiler know i want it 
to use the template version of indexOf.

thanks,

cw