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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Templates (again)
Message-ID: <72981@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:24:25 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.173916.143@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1991Jun16.173916.143@and.cs.liv.ac.uk| markr@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
|I notice recently there has been a lot of talk of templates on this group.  I
|don't know much about the situation, and would like to ask:-
|
|*	are templates part of a standard for C++, or just a proposal?

Last I had heard, the ANSI C++ committee had voted templates "in"
the language spec -- and then immediately turned around and started 
arguing about the exact syntax that should be used for templates.
Turns out I guess that using '<' and '>' as template brackets leads
to some pretty ambiguous parsing [probably not surprising considering
that '<' and '>' have radically different meanings throughout the 
rest of the language]

Still, to date, I think the description in Ellis and Stroustrup's
ARM -- "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" -- is the best reference
on templates.  [ Check out the updated Lippman when it comes out :-]