Name That Technique!

Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 3 15:50:09 PST 2017


On 02/03/2017 03:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 >> On 2/3/17 10:41 AM, Daniel N wrote:

 >>> auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm)

 > We need to give this technique a memorable name (not an acronym).

If it's going to stay "imp" (which I initially found confusing; How 
about "Import"?), "the imp idiom" might do but imps have a very 
insignificant appearance in Harry Potter. (There are "Pepper Imps sold 
at Honeydukes in Hogsmeade".)

Ali



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