Misleading requirements table in the Draft Standard

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From: Paul Dietz
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 16:38

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I find some of the requirements tables in the STL part of the April 95
draft standard to be misleading.  Consider table 2 in section
23 (Containers).  The first entry, X::value_type, is listed as
an "expression" with "return type" T.  But it's not an expression,
and has no return type; rather, it's a type synonym for T.

	Paul Dietz
	dietz@stc.comm.mot.com
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