Distinguish recursive Templates
Matt Kline via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri May 22 15:01:54 PDT 2015
On Friday, 22 May 2015 at 21:13:50 UTC, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> How can one determine the recursion depth for templated types?
>
> Example code:
>
> import std.stdio;
> class Set(T){
> override string toString(){
> return "Set";
> }
> }
> void main(){
> auto s0= new Set!uint;
> writeln( s0); // writes Set
>
> auto s1= new Set!(Set!uint);
> writeln( s1); // should write SetSet
> }
Why should the last line write SetSet? (It doesn't.) toString
isn't making any use of the template argument T, so no recursion
occurs.
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