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Re: Re: compile template question
On 2 December 2016 at 14:25, lhmouse wrote:
> It is the evilness of C.
>
> If the code without `typename` were valid it would be ambiguous, because
> `std::map<K,V>::iterator` could well be the name of some static member variable
> followed by a less-than operator and what you think is a declaration
> looks like an expression statement in spite that in no case is it valid.
No. That's a different problem (the case where the "template" keyword
is needed).