Why doesn't symbol wheelbarrowing work with function templates?

[TommiT]

On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 10:16:40 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 09:53:54 UTC, TommiT wrote:
>> 1. alias main.bar conflicts with alias main.bar
>
> This is why: they conflict.
>
> If it worked, what would you expect bar!string() return?

both bar templates take a regular argument as well as a template 
argument, so bar!string() would be an error saying something like 
"no template 'bar' matches the function call". But if you'd call 
bar!string(int.init), then I'd expect it to return 42, and with 
bar!string(char.init), I'd expect 3.