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Re: [Patch] Document pitfalls of two-stage name lookup, next revision


Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com> writes:
> | Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> | > Just ditch the footnote and use the standard terminology ("dependent
> | > name") in the main course of the document.

[...]

> > I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd wonder "dependent on what?".

[...]

> As to the question "dependent on what?", the answer is "dependent on
> template parameters".

Understood, but I suggest keeping a footnote which makes that explicit.
E.g., after the first mention of "dependent name" have a footnote that
says something like:

  A "dependent name" is a name whose binding depends on template
  parameters.

Richard


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