catchy phrase for this idiom?

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 09:05:59 PDT 2009


eponymous alias?

--bb

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:01:21 -0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>  I'm looking for a catchy phrase denoting this D idiom:
>>>  template Blah(Stuff)
>>> {
>>>   alias ... Blah;
>>> }
>>>  i.e., defining inside a template a symbol of the same name as the
>>> template itself. Then you can use Blah!(X, Y) to mean Blah!(X, Y).Blah.
>>>  What would be a catchy, descriptive, and memorable phrase for this?
>>
>> Template identity definition?
>
> Sounds good.
>
> I think Template Identity sounds good too.
>
> -Steve
>



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