accessing numeric template parameters

[MrSmith via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 3 November 2014 at 14:27:47 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
Scherkl wrote:
> If I have a struct with numeric template parameter, how can I 
> access it within member functions? Like normal member 
> variables? And how about the constructor?
>
> struct polynomial(uint base)
> {
> private:
>    uint[] N;
> public:
>    this(uint x) { base = x; }
>    ...
>    void add(Polynomial!base P)
>    {
>       if(N.length < P.N.length) N.length = P.N.length;
>       foreach(i; 0..P.N.length)
>       {
>          N[i] = (N[i]+P.N[i]) % base;
>       }
>    }
> }
>
> This doesn't work for me :-/

You cannot assign to it, because it is only avaliable during 
compilation. Think of it as an immediate value, not variable.