expanding variadic into format

[Codifies]

On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 12:54:52 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 12:13:57 UTC, Codifies wrote:
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> As rikki already explained, std.format is a variadic template, 
> which gets expanded into argument list at compile time. That's 
> why it can't be used with C-syle variadics: when you passed 
> _arguments, the expansion treated that as a single argument 
> instead of a tuple.
> Therefore, to forward arguments to std.format, your 
> `printValue` must also be a variadic.
>
> [...]

thanks for this makes it a lot clearer, I'm guessing there is a 
mailing list backing this web forum, as I replied missing some 
other responses.