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- From: Andrew Datars <datars@tiger.physics.utoronto.ca>
- Subject: Re: using a template parameter as a qualifier -- legal or not?
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 02:16:45 GMT
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- R Shapiro wrote:
- > My first question is, *should* this work, ie is it legal according to the
- > more or less official C++ standard? I can't tell from my reading of ARM
- > and the relevant portions of the draft standard. What's your take?
- >
- > The fact that other compilers support it isn't quite what I'm after, since
- > some compilers support things that are definitely not following the
- > standard. If this is a bug in CodeWarrior, I'll report it and Metrowerks
- > will probably fix it. But I still don't know if it really is a bug or not.
- >
- > --
- > rs/rshapiro@bbn.com
-
- Well I don't know if it should be legal or not. I actually asked this
- question of the net several times in my quest to use it, and I never
- received a conclusive answer. The reason I think that it should be legal
- is the wide support( from every compiler I have tried that was released in the
- last year). Further, whenever it wasn't supported, the compiler
- never reacted in a graceful manner, which leads me to believe that those
- compilers hadn't considered such a use. As I said, I have crashed compilers
- with it.
-
- My suggestion would be to talk to Metrowerks.
-
- Let me know if you find out if this is legal. I use it a lot, now that it works
- and would be quite worried if this feature were to be fixed in a later release.
- :)
-
- --
- Andrew Datars (datars@tiger.physics.utoronto.ca)
- Quantum Transport/General Computer Helper phone:(416)978-6185
- Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto fax: (416)978-2537
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