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Article #744Re: The concept of templates considered ill designed
From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 14:41
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 14:41
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.c++: 4-Oct-92 Re: The concept of template.. Andrew Koenig@alice.att. (466) > In article <BvM0DE.EA7@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> pfbertra@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca > (Philippe F. Bertrand) writes: > > Also for code hiding, compilers should generate intermediate files for > > templated code so that user's of a template class do not need to have access > > to the source. > This is primarily an implementation issue, not alnaugae issue. > If enough people want compilers that behave that way, someone will > create one. > -- > --Andrew Koenig > ark@europa.att.com I'm not so sure it is only an implementation issue. But the suggested 'templates with type constraint' would permit to change it into an implementation issue. (it the way chosen for Eiffel) Stefan ----------------------------------------------------- -- On the average, people seem to be acting normal -- -----------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!emory!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sm86+ From: osoelgaultier+@CMU.EDU (Stefan Monnier) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: The concept of templates considered ill designed Message-ID: <Ienr=wm00awU8A=Ecc@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 4 Oct 92 14:41:00 GMT References: <RAYMOND.92Sep29122502@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> <1992Oct1.140643.9775@cadsun.corp.mot.com> <1992Oct2.153826.12051@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <BvM0DE.EA7@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> <23796@alice.att.com> Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: <23796@alice.att.com>