catchy phrase for this idiom?

Sergey Gromov snake.scaly at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 15:41:06 PDT 2009


Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:21:04 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:33:34 -0700, 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrei
>> 
>> maybe parametrized alias
> 
> That sounds good but (I'm saying this to all others who focused on 
> "alias") - the inner name doesn't have to be an alias.
> 
> Andrei

template shortcut?



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