variadic request on the wild side.
Fredrik Olsson
peylow at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 09:13:21 PDT 2006
Having a constructor like:
this (...) { /* some code */ }
Can be useful, but there is one problem. Lets say you expect floats, but
then constants are by default double, so you have to cast them when
passing them, or check and cast inside. The variadic function can become
very complex.
What if I could specify a set of types that should be allowed? Say with
this syntax as a suggestion:
this (...<int, Set!(int), Range!(int)>) { /* less code */ }
This way the compiler will limit the types that can be passed to the
function, and the function (in this case a constructor) can be made much
simpler.
// Fredrik Olsson
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