From 5586355773951962437 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,edc2199a4088735f,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-13 10:35:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Tom Puverle" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Explicit member template specialization Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:34:04 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1021311248 mail2news:23517 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 14 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11189 What is the reasoning behind not allowing a member template to be explicitly specialized without specializing the enclosing template class first? Thanks, Tom --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]