D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[SomeDude]

On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 19:02:53 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:53:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:38:41PM +0200, Mehrdad wrote:
>>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:21:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> >Templates are stencils for generating code. There's nothing
>>> >confusing about that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "Stencils for generating code"? _This_??! :O
>>> 
>>>  template hasMember(T, string name)
>>>  { enum hasMember = __traits(hasMember, T, name); }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Imagine a new user's confusion when seeing something like 
>>> this.
>>> (Not sure I got it exactly right, but my point is there.)
>>
>> Yes, that's exactly how stencils work. You're essentially 
>> generating a declaration of the form:
>>
>> 	enum hasMember = ...;
>>
>> <snip>
>
>
> That's not how you see it when you're learning though.
>
> It's more like, I can imagine someone asking these:
>
> 1. Why the heck do I see "hasMember" twice?
> 2. What does this have to do with enums?
> 3. Where is anything getting "returned"???
> 4. So you mean templates are THINGS?? I thought you needed a 
> template SOMETHING, like a template struct, template function, 
> etc...
> 5. What the heck is TypeTuple!()? Where's the blueprint?
>
>
> etc.

I think TypeTuples originate from Andrei's famous book "Modern 
C++ Design"(chapter 3: Typelists), so it's essentially known by 
C++ programmers.
Indeed, it does need some introduction if you haven't been 
exposed to these before.