shouting versus dotting

[KennyTM~]

Vincent Richomme wrote:
> Michel Fortin a écrit :
>> On 2008-10-05 20:57:31 -0400, "Chris R. Miller" 
>> <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> The !() syntax seems to serve only as a heads up that it's a 
>>> template. Otherwise (as far as I can tell) a simple foo(int)(bar, 
>>> baaz) would work just as well as foo!(int)(bar, baaz).
> 
> What about the ^ ? I think it's not worst than !
> 
> foo^(int)(bar) but maybe this symbol is already used by D ?
> Personally I would prefer to keep the C++, Java, C# syntax with <> 
> because people are used to it even if in some cases it looks like a bit 
> shift op.

^ is for bitwise XOR!

Unless you use ^^

   foo^^(int)(bar)

Not my cup of tea though.