Re: Can GCC guess where to find template definitions?

[Greg Comeau]

In article <m3wtqa6d2g.fsf@amoeba.parasoft.com>,
Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov-nsp@charter.net> wrote:
>James Kanze <kanze@none> writes:
>
>> Export works, when implemented correctly. ...
>> and it provides significantly better decoupling.  It's part of
>> the standard, and given that the standard has been around for 7
>> years now, there's really no excuse for any vendor not to have
>> implemented it.
>
>The only people who actually implemented 'export' templates
>(in the EDG frontend) disagree with you, and in fact argue for
>*removal* of that feature from the standard:
>
>http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf

You're wrong, that document does not say they disagree with James.
Furthermore, they argued in its favor when n1426 was discussed in
the committee.   On a related note, here's some other thoughts on n1426:
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/iso/promises.html
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