shouting versus dotting

[downs]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I'm sure you mean not so large tomes, but with very long lines?
> 

That's why you need the bookshelf.

It's not so much the length of the tomes, it's the width :)