From 5298481397372302722 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f1baa317914feeaf X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.alt.net!frodo.cs.rpi.edu!not-for-mail From: wasti.redl@gmx.net Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: typeof keyword Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:00:35 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Sender: cppmods@cs.rpi.edu Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com Message-ID: <22e3d483-59de-42f9-955e-f789d125150d@e35g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> References: <488de3d4-77ac-4c01-8130-d196dec70bc8@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: (Usenet) Return-Path: X-Original-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:49:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:359 On Mar 27, 4:45 am, Olivier wrote: > Why wasn't the wording "typeof" kept instead of "decltype" ? > Because decltype has slightly different semantics than the existing __typeof and __typeof__ extensions of various compilers, and the committee wanted to avoid confusion. -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]