Re: typedef X;

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From: Etay Bogner
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 17:05

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In article <MATT.95Sep16194450@Austern>, Haim Kreitman
<haim_kreitman@mail.stil.scitex.com> wrote:

>> typedef type1;         // what does it mean ???

>> [Moderator's note: the STL documentation has some "code" that isn't
>> code.  This sort of line isn't supposed to be legal C++, it's just 
>> supposed to indicate that type1 is a typedef for something.  mha]

Haim and me once thought that this is a forward declaration for a type.
While reading the draft, I've noticed that there is a new keyword,
"typename", that is used for that purpose.

I think that STL should be updated to contain the "typename" keyword to
prevent confusion.

Etay.

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