Chapter 5. Templates
Like many modern programming languages, D supports the use of generic programming to simplify coding. This is done using templates, and as you'll learn in this chapter, both type and function templates are supported. Additionally, this chapter covers template specialization, template metaprogramming, and compile-time function evaluation.
The Problem of Insufficient Information
In a statically typed language like D, object-oriented programming is a means of abstraction based on certain predefined characteristics. As you learned in Chapter 3, a set of characteristics common to a particular concept are specified in an interface, and a function written to operate on an interface is then able to manipulate any number of different ...
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