PATCH: invoke.texi (was: Patch for bug with new-initializers)
Jason Merrill
jason@cygnus.com
Tue May 19 19:49:00 GMT 1998
>>>>> Mark Mitchell <mmitchell@usa.net> writes:
> Well, I will jump in here since my words are re-appearing. Jason has
> worked very hard to fix implicit typename, and it does have a purpose:
> backwards-compatibility with old code. I still have reservations
> about it, but Jason has worked very hard to improve it, and I have
> personally witnessed no recent implicit typename crashes. Of course,
> I've also been changing code to use typename in all the places the
> standard requires. In any case, I believe that Jason is "in favor of"
> the implicit typename extension.
Yep. Of course, that particular extension is a special case, as it
provides a measure of compatibility with code that was correct up until
very recently.
Jason
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