Problem with forward declaration of classes with nested templates

[John (Eljay) Love-Jensen]

Hi Steven,

Another compiler using the EDG parser produced this output:

line 9: error: incomplete type 'b' is not allowed
          public b::template impl<i>
line 9: error: 'b' not a class or struct name
          public b::template impl<i>
line 9: error: class or struct definition of 'b' is missing
          public b::template impl<i>

While GCC produced this output:
9: error: expected template-name before '<' token
9: error: expected `{' before '<' token
9: error: expected unqualified-id before '<' token

So I'm pretty confident that what you are trying to do is not copacetic.

But what you want is me to cite chapter and verse of ISO 14882.  Ummm.  I dunno.

In situations like these I say "Hey, what's that over there?  Is that two phase lookup?"  And then run away when your back is turned.

Sincerely,
--Eljay