> Introducing template metaprogramming comes with its own passel of problems: compile times (and code size) can explode, and then there are the difficult-to-deb

> Introducing template metaprogramming comes with its own passel of problems: compile times (and code size) can explode, and then there are the difficult-to-debug error messages if you screw up I don't know any even remotely large recent C++ project that does not use templates at some point. Templates are central to C++ since Alexandrescu's book and the main point around which the current language revolves.