param2 = param1

[Walter Bright]

On 8/27/2013 12:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 21:33:06 =?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?=.Marques
> <luis at luismarques.eu>@puremagic.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 11:09:01 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>>> Do you have some use cases for this?
>>
>> No, not at the moment. I was just wondering if there was a reason
>> for what seemed an arbitrary difference between template
>> parameters and normal parameters.

No reason. It simply never occurred to anyone. I've never heard of anyone 
wanting this in all my years of C, C++, and D.

> Not that I'm aware of. I'd file a bug (or at least an enhancement request) on
> it on the grounds we should be consistent unless there's a good reason not to
> be, and I'm not aware of any reason for this particular inconsistency (though
> honestly, I wouldn't have expected it to work in either case - if it can,
> great, but I would have just assumed that it wouldn't).

I'd reject an enhancement request for this unless someone could demonstrate 
significant utility for it.