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- From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Recursive templates
- Message-ID: <24210@alice.att.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:21:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24210
- References: <83733@ut-emx.uucp>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- Jamshid Afshar jamshid@emx.utexas.edu writes:
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- > This would require
- > that compilers not expand a template function or member function
- > unless it is actually called.
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- This was discussed briefly in the ANSI/ISO committee and there seemed to
- be consensus that a template member function should not be generated unless
- it was used. This is therefore the most likely outcome as a more precise
- specification is worked out, but it is not the only opinion that has ever
- been voiced on this matter.
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