Re: An STL helper -- and template and type shenanigans

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From: Doug Morgan
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 06:45

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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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Subject: Re: An STL helper -- and template and type shenanigans
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