Template members

[Alexandre Oliva]

David Greene writes:

> A quick question on template member syntax, and whether
> egcs is behaving correctly:

It is.

> I have a line of code that looks like this (e is an STL
> iterator):

> myAttribute attr = (*e).getNode()->getAttribute<myAttribute>();

The `template' keyword is mandatory just after `->' when you
explicitly specify template arguments for a template member function,
in order to disambiguate.  If it is missing, the expression must be
parsed as:

(((*e).getNode()->getAttribute) < (myAttribute)) > ()

that is, `<' is taken as a less-than operator.

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Alexandre Oliva
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