When do you use templates instead of CTFE?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/24/2012 07:42 AM, Dan wrote:
> Since there is CTFE, I keep running into, do I really need this as a
> template parameter? Why not put this in a constructor. And so on...
>
>

You use templates in combination with CTFE if

- You have to perform computations on types.
- You want template instantiation syntax.
   (If this is the only reason, the template will just wrap a CTFE 
computation)