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[Bill Baxter]

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> Bruce Adams wrote:
>> Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands 
>> for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please put 
>> me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bruce.
> 
> Implicit Function Template Instantiation
> 
> The ability to, given a function template:
> 
>    void foo(T)(T t) {}
> 
> Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:
> 
>    foo(12);
>    foo("apples");
> 

I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit 
instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know why 
D has it's own acronym for this?

--bb