Annoying thing about auto ref function template
Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 21 02:27:55 PDT 2017
On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 01:10:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, March 20, 2017 22:14:37 Yuxuan Shui via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 21:53:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>> wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> Makes sense...
>>
>> OK, attempt 2: how about support implicit partial application
>> for templates?
>
> Well, you can do something like
>
> template foo(T)
> {
> auto foo()(auto ref T t)
> {
> return t;
> }
> }
>
> void main()
> {
> alias f = foo!int;
> auto a = f(42);
> }
>
> and then foo!int, but you're not going to get a function
> pointer out of it, since for that, you need to instantiate the
> inner function template. It does give partial instantiation
> though.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
This is looks doable. Can we do this for all auto ref functions
in phobos?
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