I stumbled upon N3596: Code Reuse in Class Template Specialization recently, and it seems like it fixes a lot of pain points in the generic library I've been working on. I see template specialization as one of the most powerful avenues (and potentially the prettiest avenue) we have for passing custom functionality through generic interfaces, but it's always been hindered by the necessity to repeat all of the code from the unspecialized template.

N3596 doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, but I'm curious if there's been any other discussion about this topic of making template specialization less reliant on code duplication. Are there technical reasons that this idea doesn't work? Or has there just been a lack of motivation and effort on pushing this through as a feature? Would you be interested in this feature?

Thanks,

Leo Riesenbach