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pcwalton on Sept 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: CppCon 2018: Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners [v...

There isn't a defensible reason for untyped templates. Generics and concepts are a better design all around. It's not only error messages that matter: scoping matters more, as the problems with templates in that regard are the reason why C++ has the ADL mess.

Concepts are one of the most important features C++ needs.

Rusky on Sept 28, 2018 [–]

Too bad we're stuck with concepts-lite, where templates are still untyped and the scoping is all still done the same old messy way.

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