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From: technews@kangaroologic.com ("Jonathan Turkanis")
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Subject: Re: proposal: template argument ellipsis
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""Jarkko Lempiainen"" <jarkko@videotron.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have sometimes faced the need to have variable
> number of variable type arguments and to be able
> to pass the list of arguments to another function
> (in some very generic piece of code).



> Has there been proposal for such a language
> feature already?
>

Yes. See
http://www.osl.iu.edu/~jajarvi/publications/papers/vararg_templates_n1483.pdf.

Jonathan


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