Template instantiation syntax

[Max Samukha]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:15:12 -0700, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

>We seem to have reached a dead end on finding a significantly better 
>alternative than foo!(bar).
>
>All is not lost, though. Andrei is working on an emacs module that will 
>parse D code and replace foo!(bar) with foo?bar? for display only when 
>the editor is in D mode, the underlying text will still be foo!(bar). 
>(This doesn't affect D at all, only its display in Emacs.)
>
>Also, we're going to try using ! for single argument syntax, as in:
>
>foo!bar  is same as   foo!(bar)
>foo!10   is same as   foo!(10)
>
>etc. 0 arguments or more than 1 argument or arguments that are more than 
>one token long will still require !( ). We'll see how that works. I 
>think it looks rather nice.

I hope this insignificant issue is not taking too much of your and
Andrei's time.