Talk:Template metaprogramming

This was redirected to Talk:Generic, but no longer needs to since template metaprogramming is now described correctly. (well, let me know if it isn't correct!-)

Wow! or Eeeewwww!

I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted... supposedly it was the intention of the designers of C++ to eliminate the need for macros and tricky macro-based techniques. But now it appears that when they introduced templates, they opened the door to a whole new avenue for creative, uh, hacking?

Now that I have learned about this astonishing technique, I am going to try very hard to forget it. I think I'm going to go away now and write some programs in TECO. Dpbsmith 01:41, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)