finding errors with templates without instantiating them

[Walter Bright]

On 9/11/2013 3:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm not against it, but I find it a very small improvement. Its user base is
> exactly people who want to write and deploy a template without ever testing it
> at all, ever. I have a hard time catering to that hypothetical crowd.

I'm against it because it makes for a rather bastardized semantic pass - 
expensive to specify, write and debug, and as you point out of highly suspect merit.

Note that even so, uninstantiated D templates must lex and parse correctly 
regardless.