Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 19-07-2012 16:36, Christophe Travert wrote:
> "Petr Janda" , dans le message (digitalmars.D:172719), a écrit :
>>> Array gets sorted, then doubles are removed (uniq) and then
>>> everything is converted to a string (map).
>>>
>>> Everything was recently introduced around 2.059.
>>
>> Ok, but what is map!(). What's the point of the exclamation mark,
>> is it a template specialization?
>
> Yes, !(...) is template specialization.
> It is the equivalent of <...> in c++.
> The parentheses can be omited if only one argument is passed after the
> exclamation mark.
>
> map is a template of the std.algorithm module.
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html#map
>
> This kind of questions should go in digitalmars.D.learn.
>

No, please, template instantiation. Specialization is something 
completely different, and doesn't happen at the call site.

I don't mean to be overly pedantic, but I think OP has a C++ background 
or similar, so wrong terminology is not going to be helpful.

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