Understanding Templates: why can't anybody do it?

[Sean Kelly]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:31 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:16:13AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
>> news:jk2ro7$6dl$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> 
>>> Here's a little templates primer, I hope it helps:
>>> 
>>> [...]
>> 
>> I've cleaned this up, added an intro and outro, and posted it on my
>> website here:
>> 
>> https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/template-primer-in-d
> [...]
> 
> +1. Good introduction to D templates.
> 
> Pity you didn't get into fancy stuff like recursive templates, but I
> suppose that's out of the scope of an intro. :-)

The chapter on templates in Learn to Tango with D gets into the basics of template metaprogramming, but in article form it would probably be part 3 of a series.  I think that chapter is ~20 pages long.