IFTI

[Regan Heath]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Bill,
>>
>>> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bruce Adams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I give up. I've been trying to figure out what this FLA stands
>>>>> for since I first saw it turn up a few threads ago. Someone please
>>>>> put me out of my mystery. IMHO IIOTMCAG. <- LAAEFTR
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce.
>>>>>
>>>> Implicit Function Template Instantiation
>>>>
>>>> The ability to, given a function template:
>>>>
>>>> void foo(T)(T t) {}
>>>>
>>>> Call it without explicitly providing the types of the arguments:
>>>>
>>>> foo(12);
>>>> foo("apples");
>>> I think in C++ land they get by just calling it "implicit
>>> instantiation", right?  Anyone been around here long enough to know
>>> why D has it's own acronym for this?
>>>
>>> --bb
>>>
>> I think the "Function Template" comes from the fact that it is just for
>> function templates. Either that or because "implicit instantiation" is to
>> long and II is to ambiguous.
> 
> Hmm, you could extend it to classes too:
> 
> class Foo(T) {
>   this(T t) { }
> }
> 
> void foo() {
>   auto bar = new Foo(5);
> }

So lets drop the F, IFTI -> ITI (Implicit Template Instantiation).

Regan