Bug 18028 – Allow Unnecessary Template Instantiation To Be Dropped
Status
RESOLVED
Resolution
DUPLICATE
Severity
enhancement
Priority
P1
Component
dmd
Product
D
Version
D2
Platform
All
OS
All
Creation time
2017-12-03T21:55:58Z
Last change time
2017-12-10T05:54:18Z
Assigned to
No Owner
Creator
Jack Stouffer
Comments
Comment #0 by jack — 2017-12-03T21:55:58Z
With function templates, if the template argument(s) have default parameters, the template parentheses doesn't have to be specified:
```
void func(T = float)() { }
void main()
{
func();
}
```
However, this is not the case for structs:
```
struct Test(T = float)
{
T a;
}
void main()
{
auto b = Test(); // Error: struct Test cannot deduce function from argument types !()()
auto c = Test!()(); // Compiles
}
```
There's no reason to force the user to use explicit template parentheses. Please allow these to be dropped just like functions.
Comment #1 by issues.dlang — 2017-12-10T05:54:18Z
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 1012 ***