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- From: doug@monet.ads.com (Doug Morgan)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: An STL helper -- and template and type shenanigans
- Date: 03 Feb 96 06:45:11 GMT
- Organization: Booz-Allen & Hamilton
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Originator: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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- In article <9601281244.8175@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
- (Fergus Henderson) writes:
- > ..
- > Can someone please remind me why we decided not to allow typedef templates?
- > It certainly seems like a bad idea to force everyone to use this silly
- > obfuscation for what is obviously a common need.
-
- D&E says: "The extension is technically trivial, but I'm not sure how
- wise it would be to introduce yet another renaming feature."
-
- I have no idea why the committee might have killed typedef templates,
- but I doubt that any reasoning used had more than the zero technical
- merit of the above.
-
- Doug
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