memoize (is this a fix for overloading?)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 14:49:11 %u wrote:
> > There's still the risk of keeping multiple hashes. Consider:
> > 
> > ulong fun(ulong n) { ... }
> > alias memoize!fun mfun;
> > 
> > mfun(5); // creates hash ulong[int]
> > mfun(5u); // creates hash ulong[uint]
> > mfun('5'); // creates hash ulong[char]
> 
> Ohhh I see... so you're basically looking for a compile-time version of
> overload resolution, right? Because things seem to be getting complicated
> very quickly.
> 
> 
> 
> (An unrelated side note: I'm new to newsgroups, and I was wondering, what
> program do people mainly use for communication? I'm using the web
> interface, but do most people use Thunderbird or something? Thank you!)

I signed up for the mailing list and use kmail as my mail client. But if you use 
the mailing list, then you can use whatever works with your e-mail service, 
which would presumably include whatever mail clients work on your system. I was 
using knode (KDE's newsreader program), but then the state of messages (like 
which you've read and the like) is only on one machine. With the mailing list 
and IMAP, I can have it synced between machines.

- Jonathan M Davis