[Proposal] "Name inference" for function templates

[Markus Dangl]

Andrei Khropov schrieb:
> I think retyping the same name twice for function templates is not a very
> natural way, so I propose omitting the template name if there's only a single
> declaration in the template's body and then this declaration's name is
> "inferred " for subsequent use, i.e. :
> ------------------------------------------------
> template sqr(T)
> {
> 	T sqr( T x )
> 	{
> 		return x*x;
> 	}
> }
> ------------------------------------------------

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/template.html
If there's only a single declaration, you can even write:

T sqr(T) ( T x )
{
     return x*x;
}

Which is already in the language and even shorter than your proposal ;)
This is the same for class templates.