simple (I think) eponymous template question ... what is proper idimatic way ?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 18:28:53 UTC 2021


On 8/17/21 2:11 PM, james.p.leblanc wrote:
> Evening All,
> 
> Eponymous templates allow a nice calling syntax.  For example, "foo" 
> here can
> be called without needing the exclamation mark (!) at calling sites.  We 
> see that
> foo is restricting a, and b to be of the same type ... so far, so good.
> 
> auto foo(T)(T a, T b) { ... }
> 
> Now, suppose I need to restrict "T" only certain subsets of variable types.
> 
> I can imagine putting in some "static if" statements in my function body,
> is one solution.  (Also a bit ugly as the allowed types might grow).
> 
> Is there a more elegant way, to do this?

[Template 
constraints](https://dlang.org/spec/template.html#template_constraints).

-Steve


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