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In article AA11584@garlic.spices, wikman@research.nokia.com (Johan Wikman)
writes:

>I'd like to be able to have a class and a template with the same name
>in the same scope. 

	class A { ... };

	template <class T>
	class A {
		void foo() { .... A ... }
	};

In A<T>::foo, I use the identifier "A". Does that refer to the template
or to the class? In order not to break all existing code, it must
refer to the template. In that case, how do I refer to the class?
Both things called "A" are in the same scope, and both can be used
where the name of a type is wanted.

Perhaps you can think of a special syntax that won't change the meaning
of existing code, or we could say that you can't refer to class A anywhere
in the scope of template A. The question is whether the extra complication
is justified. Remember, you can use longer "official" type or
template names, and add typedefs to make them easier to use.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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