Re: The concept of templates considered ill designed

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From: Thomas M. Breuel
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 09:07

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In article <1992Oct2.144959.18480@cadsun.corp.mot.com> shang@corp.mot.com (David (Lujun) Shang) writes:

   In article <1992Oct1.140643.9775@cadsun.corp.mot.com> shang@corp.mot.com I  
   wrote:
   Template is not a self-enclosed type-safe language feature, i.e. it cannot be  
   compiled separately to ensure type-error free. All type errors about the 
   class parameters are checked when the template is used.

Yes. However, the reason for this is not intrinsic in the template
concept, but in the way templates were "integrated" with overloading
in C++.

					Thomas.

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