Template instantiation syntax

[Bent Rasmussen]

That's a great idea. A meta-syntax for the editor.

Also, foo«bar» looks much better than any of the other suggestions.

- Bent

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> skrev i meddelelsen 
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> We seem to have reached a dead end on finding a significantly better 
> alternative than foo!(bar).
>
> All is not lost, though. Andrei is working on an emacs module that will 
> parse D code and replace foo!(bar) with foo«bar» for display only when the 
> editor is in D mode, the underlying text will still be foo!(bar). (This 
> doesn't affect D at all, only its display in Emacs.)
>
> Also, we're going to try using ! for single argument syntax, as in:
>
> foo!bar  is same as   foo!(bar)
> foo!10   is same as   foo!(10)
>
> etc. 0 arguments or more than 1 argument or arguments that are more than 
> one token long will still require !( ). We'll see how that works. I think 
> it looks rather nice.