Making template instantiations more lazy
Biotronic
simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 10:17:38 UTC 2017
On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 09:56:33 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 09:32:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 09:13:47 Per Nordlöw via
>> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>> Are there any nearby plans to make more template
>>> instantiations (especially aggregate members) lazy in DMD?
>>>
>>> Are there any specific obstacles against doing that or has it
>>> just not been prioritized?
>>
>> Templates are never instantiated unless they're actually...
>> well, instantiated. So, they're already lazy in that sense.
>> The compiler isn't pre-emptive with them at all. What exactly
>> about them do you want to be lazy that isn't?
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Member functions of templated containers is my main focus.
Make them templates, that should solve the problem:
struct S(T) {
void foo()() {
compileerror;
}
}
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