Variadic templates

[Kyle Furlong]

Benji Smith wrote:
> Craig Black wrote:
>  >> This feature seems to supercede older versions of variadic functions.
>  >> Are there still reasons to use the older approach to variadics?
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> That's a very good question, and I don't know the answer. writefln()'s 
>> current implementation may be obsolete. But it's premature to write 
>> its obituary. Let's see how things unfold a bit first.
> 
> I'd hate to think that every call to a variadic function would require a 
> template instantiation. Doesn't seem like it'd be very efficient.
> 
> --benji

Wait, templating function calls incurs a runtime penalty?