catchy phrase for this idiom?

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Mar 12 08:02:18 PDT 2009


Sean Kelly wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for a catchy phrase denoting this D idiom:
>>
>> template Blah(Stuff)
>> {
>>    alias ... Blah;
>> }
>>
>> i.e., defining inside a template a symbol of the same name as the 
>> template itself. Then you can use Blah!(X, Y) to mean Blah!(X, Y).Blah.
>>
>> What would be a catchy, descriptive, and memorable phrase for this?
> 
> Template identity definition?

Oh, and should this actually be:

template Blah(Stuff)
{
     alias ... this;
}

I thought that was the new syntax.



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