Wikipedia's page on templates/generics
Hasan Aljudy
hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 04:39:31 PDT 2006
Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:25:26 +1000, Hasan Aljudy
> <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>>
>>>> It doesn't have much about generic programming. The section that is
>>>> currently there belongs on the metaprogramming page, which
>>>> currently doesn't mention D at all.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming
>>>
>>> It doesn't mention D because some C++ people keep deleting it.
>>
>>
>> They're ashamed of the comparison between C++'s and D's syntax <g>
>
>
> I assume its you Hasan, who has been inserting D examples into the
> wikipedia topic. If so, can I please ask that we stop doing that, so we
> can focus on the topic and not the methods that some langugaes have
> implemented templates. To just isolate two languages (C++ and D) in the
> wikipedia entry is divisive and does *not* help the D cause in any way.
> There are better forums to demonstrate the benefits of D's particular
> implementation of templates.
>
No it wasn't me.
I didn't touch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming
until two hours ago.
Even the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming article, I
only touched it once (actually, multiple edits in one session), I know
my writing was bad, which is why I made this thread.
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