reason variadic templates

[Bill Baxter]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> "Larry Evans" <cppljevans at cos-internet.com> wrote in message 
> news:efokmo$1det$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> On 11/04/2005 08:03 AM, Larry Evans wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> variadric templates would be a very nice feature however.  This has come 
>>>> up in
>>>> the past and Walter seemed to like the idea, so it will probably happen
>>>> eventually.
>> Doug Gregor patched g++ to implement variadic templates:
>>
>> http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20060926.213635.0a8fa8a2.en.html
>>
>> Maybe Doug's implementation would give Walter some howto ideas.
> 
> I'm not into metaprogramming, but I think this would be a great feature of D 
> to pick up.
> 
> Already I'm noticing some D templates doing the same copy-paste trick to get 
> a template to accept any number of parameters (like in the S&S examples in 
> the respective thread). IIRC the was another D template library that 
> actually used a D program/script to generate its .d files for any number of 
> parameters! Surely we can do better than that...
> 
> L. 

That is pretty great.
Though I would prefer some sort of "static foreach" kind of construct 
rather than having to go purely functional to use the feature.

--bb