Sorry to drag out this old dead horse again, but can anyone remind me why D doesn't support implicit template instantiation? Is it for ideological reasons, or because it would be to difficult to implement?

Nick

In article <cgckfe$2arv$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Nick says...
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>Sorry to drag out this old dead horse again, but can anyone remind me why D doesn't support implicit template instantiation? Is it for ideological reasons, or because it would be to difficult to implement?
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>Nick

I think it was ideology at first, but now it's more because of the increase of complexity: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?TemplateInstantiation

jcc7