Tim M Wrote:

> >> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm looking for a catchy phrase denoting this D idiom:
> >>>
> >>> template Blah(Stuff)
> >>> {
> >>>     alias ... Blah;
> >>> }
> >>
> >> verbose templated declaration.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned, we've found a winner right here ;)
> 
> What's verbose about a template with a single declaration?
> 
> Verbose adj. "Using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words"

Normally you write templated declaration using only one symbol:

class Foo(T1,T2)
{
 ...
}

The need to use verbose form is a sing of syntactical deficiency of the language.