"I agree that the metaprogramming stuff in C++ is not something for beginners." Or even for most programming problems, in general! Templates should be used wh

"I agree that the metaprogramming stuff in C++ is not something for beginners." Or even for most programming problems, in general! Templates should be used when you are writing a container class. That's about it. Using them for crazy hard-to-read and hard-to-debug metaprogramming purposes is just irresponsible.