template parameter list syntax

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 20:52:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> The template function declaration syntax is actually a 
> shorthand for the so-called eponymous template.  When you write:
>
> 	auto myFunc(Args...)(Args args) { }
>
> it's actually a shorthand for:
>
> 	template myFunc(Args...) {
> 		auto myFunc(Args args) { }
> 	}
>
> For the shorthand to introduce ! would be incongruous because 
> the template declaration syntax doesn't use !.
>
>
> T


I'm asking why template declaration syntax doesn't use ! so it's 
parallel to template use syntax which does use ! .

I was not talking about function templates as such.