std.functional:partial - disambiguating templated functions

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 16:37:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 15:45:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> How do I persuade partial to tie itself to the appropriate 
>> overload?
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> As far as I can see std.functional.partial only does one 
> argument at a time.
>
> bars=partial!(partial!(partial!(slurpBars!BarType, filename), 
> startDate), endDate);
>
> or maybe, I'm not sure, but maybe you can do:
>
> bars=partial!(slurpBars!BarType, AliasSeq!(filename, startDate, 
> endDate));
>
> If you find you really need to manually mess with overloads, 
> use http://dlang.org/traits.html#getOverloads. You may have to 
> wrap it in AliasSeq in some situations due to grammar/parser 
> constraints.
fwiw - still doesn't work (whether I use alias or auto, trying 
each of your solutions).  I'll look at getOverloads.


Laeeth.