can I get public alias to private templates?

[BCS]

Reply to Chris Nicholson-Sauls,

> I don't know of any way to expose public names for private things in
> quite that way, but you might consider something like this:
> 
> private void goT(T)(T v){
> static if (!(is(T == int) || is(T == char) || is(T == byte) || is(T
> == float))) {
> static assert (false, "...useful message...");
> }
> // ... code ...
> }
> Not super pretty, I know, but it should work.  It would be nice if
> there were a cleaner way of doing this for those cases where the list
> is long.  (I have something I would've liked to templatize in a
> similar fashion, but with about 10 types to support.)
> 

Yeah, I guess I could do that. But I also have a bunch of other stuff that 
 would have to be checked. I guess I could make it all public and then make 
threats against the lives on anyone who uses the template directly. :b