Eponymous template with full template syntax

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:15:04 -0400, Ali Çehreli <acehreli at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think main's second line used to work:
>
> template isSmall(T)
> {
>      enum isSmall = (T.sizeof < 12345);
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>      static assert(isSmall!int);          // <-- the usual syntax works
>
>      static assert(isSmall!int.isSmall);  // <-- compilation ERROR
> }
>
> Error: template deneme.isSmall does not match any function template  
> declaration. Candidates are:
>         deneme.isSmall(T)
> Error: template deneme.isSmall(T) cannot deduce template function from  
> argument types !()(bool)
>
> Am I imagining it? I don't have a problem with it. :) Was the change  
> intentional?

I think it used to work, and I think the change was intentional.  I also  
"discovered" this not too long ago.

-Steve