Future of D style variadic fuctions

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 11:57:46 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-05-09 13:15, deadalnix wrote:
>> Le 09/05/2012 08:10, SiegeLord a écrit :
>>> For the ignorant: I do NOT mean variadic templates as used by 
>>> std.stdio.
>>>
>>> I note that they are not mentioned in TDPL. What is the deal 
>>> with them
>>> and their future? I'll be very displeased if I have to recode 
>>> a good bit
>>> of Tango that uses them if they are removed... None of my 
>>> attempts at
>>> coding a replacement for them using variadic templates have 
>>> matched
>>> their efficiency (in terms of generated code size) or ease of 
>>> use (they
>>> invariably require a shim function).
>>>
>>> -SL
>>
>> They are useful to interface with existing C code and variadic 
>> template
>> have drawback (they for instance cannot be virtual).
>
> C variadics are note the same as D variadics. D has four kinds 
> of variadics:
>
> * Template
> * D style
> * Type safe
> * C style

Five, if you count lazy variadics.

-Lars