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Re: [C++ PATCH] Make parser revert digraph "<:"
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:
| On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:58:11 -0800, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
|
| > Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
| >
| >> "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
| >>
| >> | Therefore I think that "'<::' cannot begin a template-argument list"
| >> | (with additional explanation in note:s) is clear and factually
| >> | accurate, while remaining appropriately brief.
| >>
| >> It is certainly brief but it is neither clear nor factually accurate.
| >
| > To this, I can only say that I disagree.
|
| I agree with Zack. In the code in question "<::" does begin the
| template-argument-list in a textual sense. Any other interpretation would
| require a deliberate misreading.
I dont' think so. In the textual sense, what begins the
template-argument list is the character '<' and that is the (general)
view of template-argument list; that is no deliberate misreading. The
following '::' is intended to resolve the subsequent name.
-- Gaby