template parameter list syntax

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 16:59:03 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
wrote:
> [...]
>
> In many languages the way parameters for functions are 
> syntactically specified in a function definition mirrors the 
> way arguments are supplied when the function is called, so that 
> the syntax of the definition suggests the syntax of its use.
>
> D doesn't do this with templates. Why?

Walter Bright explains some of the reasoning behind D's 
implementation of templates, including the syntax, in his article 
"Templates Revisited":

https://dlang.org/articles/templates-revisited.html