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		arunc on April 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Accidentally Turing-Complete Reminded me of the fact that D templates are not Turning Complete.

ben-schaaf on April 24, 2020 | [–]

IIRC D templates are more powerful than C++ templates, and certainly turning complete. CTFE is also turning complete.

FeepingCreature on April 24, 2020 | [–]

As a D user, I highly doubt that, considering we had raytracers written in templates fourteen years and one major language version ago. [1] What stops them?

[1] http://h3.gd/posts/ctrace/

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