Re: Can GCC guess where to find template definitions?

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau) writes:

> Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov-nsp@charter.net> wrote:
>>James Kanze <kanze@none> writes:
>>
>>> 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
>
> You're wrong, that document does not say they disagree with James.

It doesn't? The article says:

  All (Steve, John, Daveed) [when asked by other implementers for
  advice about how best to implement export]: "Don't."

I don't read this as "there is no excuse for any vendor not to have
implemented exported templates long time ago", but perhaps my
command of the English language is lacking :-(

> Furthermore, they argued in its favor when n1426 was discussed in
> the committee.

That may be true; but (again disagreeing with James) they still
don't think this is a good language feature:

  Steve Adamczyk: "Although we oppose the language feature, ..."

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