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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Templates...?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 17:33:30 GMT
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dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Derek R. Foster) writes:

>While reading this newsgroup recently, I have run across several
>references to "templates", which I am presuming (perhaps incorrectly)
>are the long-awaited addition of generic types to C++.

That's what they are.

>I have only heard passing references to templates, however. Have they
>been "officially" added to C++?

Not yet.  There are some experimental partial implementations.

>Is there an agreed-upon syntax?

Not yet, but see Ellis & Stroustrup, "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual".
There is some discussion in the ANSI C++ committee (X3J16) concerning
the adequacy of the syntax.  The specified syntax has some known ambiguities.

>Could someone give some simple examples which would show this syntax?

See E&S.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com