From -7032820806730698060 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,57f37be32367f817 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: AlbertoBarbati@libero.it (Alberto Ganesh Barbati) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Defect report: [dcl.constexpr]/5 constexpr and templates Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:09:37 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Lines: 51 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <6kJYi.167319$U01.1178976@twister1.libero.it> References: <87wssud7ue.fsf@grogan.peloton> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1194552584 28453 158.152.254.254 (8 Nov 2007 20:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:09:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAPzvMkfBRsBm/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id lA8K9b57016429; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:09:37 +1100 (EST) X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:20:34 MET X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-SMTP-Auth: no X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:9578 David Abrahams ha scritto: > on Tue Nov 06 2007, AlbertoBarbati-AT-libero.it (Alberto Ganesh Barbati) wrote: > >> Greg Herlihy ha scritto: >>> On 11/5/07 11:24 AM, in article I3KXi.161547$%k.303426@twister2.libero.it, >>> "Alberto Ganesh Barbati" wrote: >>> >>>> While I agree that the term "function template" might be stretched to >>>> also include member function templates, including members of a class >>>> template is IMHO a bit too far, and AFAIK it would be the first time in >>>> the standard that such a thing would be made. >>> The term "template function" would be more apt in this context, since a >>> template function may refer either to an instantiation of a function >>> template or function generated by the instantiation of a class template. >>> >>> The following active defect report addresses the inconsistent function >>> template terminology in the current Standard: >>> >>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2450.html#105 >>> >> According to the resolution of DR105, the term "function template" has >> been consistently removed from the standard wording in favor of the more >> precise terms "template function" (1.3.11 and 13.3.1 and others) or >> "member functions of class templates and member function templates" >> (9.3). > > Are you sure you're trying to say what you just said? I see lots of > instances of "function template" in the latest draft. "Function > template" refers to something like this: I apologize for the noise, I inverted by mistake "function template" with "template function" in my statement above. > >> Why would you want to re-introduce the deprecated term? > > There's definitely no deprecation in DR 105. > Of course there's no formal deprecation of the term "template function", but having it consistently removed from the standard looks definitely like a (informal) deprecation of it. Ganesh --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]