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Re: C++: template in namespace

To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
Subject: Re: C++: template in namespace
From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
Date: 10 Aug 1999 00:57:30 -0700
Cc: mark at codesourcery dot com, benko at sztaki dot hu, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <3405-Mon02Aug1999140432+0200-benko@lutra.sztaki.hu> <199908081004.MAA24088@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19990808103909M.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <199908100733.JAA03150@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>

>>>>> Martin v Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

 >>   /* We have not yet called push_template_decl to turn the
 >>      FUNCTION_DECL into a TEMPLATE_DECL, so the declarations
 >>      won't match.  But, we'll check later, when ...?  */
 >> 
 >> I don't know what comes in the `when', but I'm sure you had something
 >> in mind.

 > I haven't located the right spot, yet, but I felt it is better to not
 > complain about ill-formed code but to complain about correct one; at
				  ^^^
 > least for 2.95.1.

If you mean "than" where you wrote "but", I agree.  FWIW, my hierarchy of
severity of bugs, from worst to least:

Silently doing the wrong thing for correct code
Rejecting correct code
Silently doing something broken for incorrect code
Ignoring incorrect code
Crashing on incorrect code without an error message
Giving the wrong error
Crashing on incorrect code after giving a valid error

Jason

References:
- C++: template in namespace
  - From: Martin v. Loewis
- Re: C++: template in namespace
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: C++: template in namespace
  - From: Martin v. Loewis

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