TypeFunction example: ImplictConvTargets

claptrap clap at trap.com
Wed Oct 7 12:58:48 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 12:37:48 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 12:30:15 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 10/7/20 7:58 AM, claptrap wrote:
>>> Lets reverse the roles, say TF were invented first, and 
>>> somebody was arguing for templates to be added now. The TP 
>>> version would be a couple of stdlib calls and the template 
>>> version a whole page.
>>
>> Incumbency is a huge matter in programming language design. Of 
>> course I would not propose another way of doing the same thing.
>
> I just looked up Incumbency, but the German translation was 
> 'Time someone has been in office' ...
> I am not seeing how these things relate.
> Perhaps you can say this in different words?

incumbent = the established order.

It's usually used in the context of a politician in office who 
defending his position rather than challenging for it. IE. Trump 
is the incumbent, Biden is the challenger.


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