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From: dsouza@gwen.cad.mcc.com (Desmond Dsouza)
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Subject: Re: Implementing NULL
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Date: 7 Jun 91 22:09:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: sdm@cs.brown.edu's message of 30 May 91 14:04:00 GMT


In article <77091@brunix.UUCP> sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes:


   >  So here's my latest thought, but since I don't have a compiler supporting
   >  templates, I don't know if it will work:

   >       class NullClass {
   >  		public:
   >   		template <class T> operator T*() const { return 0; }
   >      };

   >       extern NullClass NULL;


   >   Scott

Nice idea, but:

	ARM, p 342: A template declaration can only appear as a global declaration

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Desmond.
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