shouting versus dotting

[Gregor Richards]

downs wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The problem I see with "!" as a template instantiation is not technical.
>> I write a fair amount of templated code and over years the "!" did not
>> grow on me at all. I was time and again consoled by Walter than one day
>> that will happen, but it never did. I also realized that Walter didn't
>> see a problem with it because he writes only little template code.
>>
> 
> FWIW: I write large volumes of template code and I like the ! just fine.
> 

Don't take this endorsement lightly. When downs says he writes large 
volumes of template code, he means volumes in the literary sense: You 
could fill a fairly-large bookshelf with his tomes of template code.

  - Gregor Richards