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[BCS]

Reply to Bill,

> 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
> 

I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for function 
templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is to long and 
II is to ambiguous.