Nobody understands templates?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:23:49PM +0000, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 11:47:39 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> >I just discovered by trial and error that I could use 'mixin' in
> >Templates (as opposed to Template Mixins), and when you know that
> >it seems likely that you can accomplish lots of stuff you couldn't
> >before.
> 
> This was asked about recently.
> 
>    mixin template ...
> 
> This is the correct way to declare a template to use in mixins,
> several of us are surprised that you can still mixin a template
> which wasn't declared in this manner. I've created a bug so an
> official statement can be made on it:
> 
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12298

I'm pretty sure that's a bug, since TDPL clearly distinguishes between
templates and mixin templates. But if this bug leads to interesting use
case, maybe it's a case of an unintentional feature? :-P


T

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