Templated functions: explicit and implicit instantiation at the same time?

[Don Clugston]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Don Clugston" <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote in message 
> news:fgc15n$226b$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Do it in two levels.
>>
>> template func(R=int)
>> {
>>    R func(T)(T t) {...}
>> }
> 
> First thing I tried.  This works for the explicit case, but you can't call 
> it with IFTI, since func is no longer a function template.  I wish the 'is 
> this a function template?' check were a little more lenient/intelligent in 
> some cases. 
> 
> 
Oh, yeah. Now I remember. You still have to put in a !(). Bummer.
func!(long)(3.0i);
func!()(4.0);

That was the best I could find, around DMD 1.0.