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- From: "nicolas (n.) chapados" <chapados@bnr.ca>
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- Subject: Re: Better template syntax?
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:57:57 GMT
- Organization: Bell Northern Research
- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- Roman Lechtchinsky wrote:
-
- > Now, personally I would prefer to write something like:
- >
- > template<class T { bool operator==( const T& t ) const; }> ...
- >
- > Now, what I'd like to know is if something like this has been considered and
- > rejected ( and why ) and what other people think about it ( would this be
- > really easier to use in practice; do you consider it more elegant than the
- > current approach ). Thanks in advance.
-
- Specification of requirements on template arguments in a form similar to
- what
- you suggest is discussed in Stroustrup's Design and Evolution of C++.
- The
- reasons leading to the rejection of similar proposals are discussed as
- well
- (although not to my satisfaction, since one of the stated reasons is
- that
- requirements specification can be "emulated" in the language--this was
- true
- when Stroustrup wrote D&E but is not true any more.)
-
- Note that your and similar approach make it easy to specify positive
- requirements on arguments ("this type shall have this and that") but not
- negative
- requirements ("this type shall *not* have this and that").
-
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