• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Jul 15 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Christian Kamm:
 Is there a difference between
 template Foo(T : U) {} and 
 template Foo(T) if(is(T : U)) {} ?


I think if() offers better error messages here (I have not tried it in this
case, so I may be wrong).
Even if I am right, it's not inevitable, GCC shows to give better error
messages (better == the first line of error shows the line number where you
have tried to instantiate the template).

See also:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=92766

I have tried to ask this (simple?) but handy feature to LDC developers, but
they have answered me that it's something that has to be done by the front-end
(by Walter, mostly), so it's not something LDC devs want to to add just to LDC
for me :-)

Bye,
bearophile