🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <199512140426.NAA01763@k9.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> loba@k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tomohira Tabata) writes:

   I wonder we have no method of giving a template a different name. 
   Typedef provides a new concept to a type, for example.
	   typedef int size_t;
   In the same manner I'd like to give a alias to a template. I know it
   is possible using #define.
	   #define MyContainer Vector
   We need a method independent of the preprocessor for the purpose.

Doesnt this work?

template <class T> typedef Vector<T> MyContainer;

Well, it didnt work with g++2.7.0. Though i dont know why wouldn't it work.
Reading the september working paper i didnt found anything, what would
forbid using it, and typedef is a simple-declaration and should be allowed
in template declaration, wouldnt it? [temp.2], [dcl.dcl.1], [dcl.spec.1]
So i guess its not yet implemented in g++ or i cant read the draft...

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