Re: Can GCC guess where to find template definitions?

[Greg Comeau]

In article <m3br7m5opa.fsf@amoeba.parasoft.com>,
Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov-nsp@charter.net> wrote:
>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, ..."

Your command of English is probably not lacking, however,
you are probably not acknowledging how well written n1426 was,
the full history, the emotions.
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