From -9115802661820155853 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!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.alt.net!frodo.cs.rpi.edu!not-for-mail From: "Joe Smith" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: typeof keyword Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:43:37 CST Organization: Mixmin Lines: 29 Sender: cppmods@cs.rpi.edu Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com Message-ID: References: <488de3d4-77ac-4c01-8130-d196dec70bc8@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original To: (Usenet) Return-Path: X-Original-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:02 -0400 X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:360 "Olivier" wrote: > Why wasn't the wording "typeof" kept instead of "decltype" ? Because the typeof() extention is some compilers is ever so slightly different than the decltype() feature. Here is how the typeof operator works in some compilers: int a; int &b=a; typeof(a) c; //This declares an int named c. typeof(b) d; //This declares an int named d. But with decltype: int a; int &b=a; decltype(a) c; //This declares an int named c. decltype(b) d; //This declares an int& named d. -- [ 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 ]