Implicit instantiation of parameterless templates

[Maxim Fomin]

On Friday, 5 October 2012 at 20:19:26 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> F i L wrote:
>> Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> Hm... If placed at the global scope it looks like a namespace.
>>
>> I don't see anything wrong with that. It's just another way 
>> (somewhat
>> unique to D) you can categorize your code. Most people 
>> probably won't
>> use this sort of thing all over the place, but it actually 
>> might be
>> useful for "enforcing" naming classifications:
>>
>>     // File system/io.d
>>
>>     template Console
>>     {
>>         void write( ... )
>>         void read()
>>     }
>
> final abstract class Console
> {
>     static:
>     void write() { }
>     void read() { }
> }
>
> Console.write();
>
> P.S. Yes, simultaneous final and abstract actually works :)

Thanks to how dmd parses code, many simultaneous things actually 
work, sometimes it is nonsense http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/04e6bf33