change mixins

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Feb 14 14:37:06 PST 2010


"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hl9q47$2kjr$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Right now, mixins are defined and used as:
>
>    template foo(T) { declarations... }
>
>    mixin foo!(int) handle;
>
> The proposal is to switch it around:
>
>    mixin template foo(T) { declarations... }
>
>    foo!(int) handle;
>
> to follow the notion that mixin templates are very different from regular 
> templates, and that should be reflected in their definition rather than 
> use.
>
> What do you think?

I don't have an opinion on template mixins, as I've never really used them, 
but I *definitely* want that for string mixins of both the 
template-generated and ctfe-generated varieties. 





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