From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-24 21:12:07
At 06:55 PM 3/22/2002, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> Is anyone aware of any compelling reason why a construct like this is
>> critical? Keep in mind the poor maintenance programmer that is not an
>> expert in templates and doesn't have my email address.
>
>With proper diagnostics missing typenames shouldn't be a problem even for
a
>maintenance programmer - an error would just say this explicitly -
"missing
>typename in ...".
IIRC, some compiler I've used recently gave just that warning, and it was
really helpful.
--Beman