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Re: [C++ PATCH] Make parser revert digraph "<:"
neil@daikokuya.co.uk (Neil Booth) wrote on 26.01.04 in <20040126202703.GA4395@daikokuya.co.uk>:
> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:-
>
> > | Yes, we agree that "'<::' cannot begin a template-argument-list" doesn't
> > | make sense under definition 2 above. And therefore, when I read that
> > | message, my brain rejects definition 2 and settles on definition 3,
> > which | does make sense.
> >
> > And the issue is which definition is most common, not which we can
> > choose to make an obscure message somehow meaningful. I rather fix
> > the obscure message.
>
> FWIW I agree with Jason and Zack, and suggest we go with the native
> speakers.
This non-native speaker believes that, when talking about the sequence
'<::', "'<::' begins ..." is MUCH more understandable than "'<' begins
...". Gabriel's logic does not make sense to me.
MfG Kai