Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Christophe Travert]

Alex Rønne Petersen , dans le message (digitalmars.D:172728), a écrit :
> 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.

You are right, its my mistake (well, I can still send the mistake back 
to Petr...).