template parameter list syntax

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 17:59:48 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> 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

I don't see anything in this document that answers my design 
question. Do you?