Valmond comments on Omnilingualism

Omnilingualism (lemmy.world)

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

How so, templates make for less code usually? Or like template meta prog?

I'm a C++ dev and I'm lost on this one :-p plz send help

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[–] Phrodo_00@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I think it's because each template specialization works kind of like a new copy of a class.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Still not getting it, I mean you don't even get to see the code? IDK

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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago

/shrug

That's my best guess, in the sense that that's what the compiler ends up producing, for templated code: the same code copy-pasted for however many different use cases you have.

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