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esap@cs.tut.fi (Pulkkinen Esa) wrote:
>In article <199508241251.IAA03008@gold.interlog.com>,
>Herb Sutter <herbs@interlog.com> wrote:
>>>  A<> *p1; // The legal way to default the argument
>>>  A *p2;   // Syntax error
>>
>>If the latter was allowed, it would be ambiguous if a non-templated class A 
>>existed.
>
>"The name of a class template shall not be declared to refer
>to any other template, class, function, object, enumeration, enumerator,
>namespace, value or type in the same scope. ..."

Mea culpa #1.  I seem to have messed up rather awfully; two glaring errors in 
one article!  Here's the other:

>You can't have a function and a variable
>with the same name anyway. The reason for not allowing function calls
>without () is (IMHO it's a shame) that you couldn't differentiate
>between the function and its address (since function's name without ()
>means its address).

>Or am I missing something?

No; it's been a long day. :)  Thanks.


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