Templates lots of newbie qs.

[Chris Warwick]

"Chris Warwick" <sp at m.me.not> wrote in message 
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> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Chris Warwick" <sp at m.me.not> wrote in message 
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>>>
>>> IFTI?
>>
>> ...you can just type "functionName(params)".
>>
>> IFTI stands for "Implicit Function Template Instantiation."  When you 
>> write a templated function:
>>
>> T func(T)(T val)
>> {
>>    return val;
>> }
>>
>> You don't want to have to type out:
>>
>> func!(int)(4);
>> func!(char[])("hi");
>>
>> So IFTI can implicitly determine what T should be by looking at the 
>> parameter list:
>>
>> func(4); // T is determined to be int
>> func("hello"); // T is determined to be char[]
>>
>> It's a very useful feature.
>
> So say you have the following...
>
> int indexOf(T)(T[] arr, T item)
> {
>    // search for and return index
> }
>
> class Foo()
> {
>    Bar[] fitems;
>    int indexOf(Bar b)
>    {
>        fitems.indexOf(b);   // <--- name clash

should be:

return fitems.indexOf(b);