From -7810892479558025810 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,72f81acd9a4d6dd0 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,72f81acd9a4d6dd0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-22 23:25:54 PST Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!delos.stgt.sub.org!delos.stgt.sub.org!news.maz.net!pipex!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.cygnus.com!news!jason From: jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill) Subject: Re: Forward declaration of classes nested in template classes In-Reply-To: alhy@courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU's message of Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:58:03 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Sender: news@cygnus.com Nntp-Posting-Host: phydeaux.cygnus.com Organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:25:54 GMT Lines: 18 Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.std.c++:11603 comp.lang.c++:91426 >>>>> J Scott Berg writes: > Consider the following declaration: > template class A { class B; }; > template class A::B { A a; }; > As far as I can tell from the 9/20/94 WP, this is illegal (my > compilers seem to agree with me on this, unless I have the syntax > wrong). Most likely, your compilers are broken. I don't see any reason why that code would be disallowed by the 1/31/95 WP. Do any compilers get this right yet? Jason