Thanks for the response! > The idea of "templates" comes with a lot of baggage from C++-land. If we were doing this with C++ templates, I'd agree, because the

Thanks for the response! > The idea of "templates" comes with a lot of baggage from C++-land. If we were doing this with C++ templates, I'd agree, because the errors are abysmal and the types are difficult to write. You're spot on. I suspect most people familiar with template-ish expressions come from C++, where you encounter quite a few projects that are "templates all the way down" (looking at you, OpenFOAM).