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- From: jars@chinook.halcyon.com (Juan Rodriguez)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: NEWBIE: MSVC C++ and templates
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:19:49 GMT
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- In article <4eegvd$n76@reader2.ix.netcom.com>,
- James Edward Sands III <froman@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >I am learning C++ with microsoft visual c++ professional edition v1.5,
- >a funny thing happened the other day though. I entered the chapter
- >(in my book) on templates, and when coding, MSVC kept on spitting up
- >errors (erroneous errors). All surronding the template delcaration,
- >and calls. Upon the help file inspection, I read an entry that says
- >"This produce does not support the use of templates" (word for word)
- >Does anyone know why MSVC does not support them (they look real
- >useful), or am I overlooking something?
-
- I can't tell you why the 16-bit Visual C++ compilers don't support
- templates; the fact is they don't. Nevertheless, they are shipped with
- a preprocessor called TEMPLDEF.EXE; read its documentation, it might
- help you.
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- Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sero |We feel the machine slipping from our hands
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