[cfe-dev] "Automatic explicit" template instantiation?

[Bouman, N.J. via cfe-dev]

> On 7 Jan 2019, at 05:37, Marcus Johnson <bumblebritches57 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I haven't contributed to Clang yet, and I'm not familiar with IBM's anything really, but I feel like your proposal is beating around the bush a bit.
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> In my opinion, Clang is too deeply coupled and adheres too closely to the OOP style.
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> My point is that Clang's abstraction layers aren't broken down in the correct places, and it could use some serious refactoring.
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I might have been unclear, but by “heavily templated code” I was referring to *user code*, not to Clang’s codebase.

So my question is about an optional compiler feature, provided to users of the compiler, instead of suggesting to refactor Clang’s codebase.

Kind regards,
Niek