function template specialization question D vs. C++

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 19:32:06 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
> On Sunday, January 14, 2018 02:24:52 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 14 January 2018 at 02:14:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> >
> > wrote:
> > > If you're using template constraints rather than template
> > > specializations, then you can't have any unconstrained
> > > templates.
> >
> > Not true: see the tip of the week here
> > http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/2016-sep-04.html
>
> Well, that's a neat trick to get around the restriction that I stated, but
> it doesn't really make what I said untrue. Unless you're using template
> specializations, you can't overload an unconstrained template. That tip
> just shows a way to combine template specializations and template
> constraints so that you get the same effect as if you were allowed to
> overload
> unconstrained templates with constrained templates without using template
> specializations.

It is a neat trick though.

- Jonathan M Davis