From 4051578327817459847 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,109af18a94b8a35c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e5cae9ffbf1dd57e X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-10-04 07:12:34 PST Xref: sparky comp.lang.c++:14503 comp.std.c++:1296 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watmath!watcgl!pfbertra From: pfbertra@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Philippe F. Bertrand) Subject: Re: The concept of templates considered ill designed Message-ID: Organization: Computer Graphics Lab [CGL], University of Waterloo References: <1992Oct1.140643.9775@cadsun.corp.mot.com> <1992Oct2.153826.12051@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:22:25 GMT Lines: 20 In article <1992Oct2.153826.12051@ucc.su.OZ.AU> maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes: >In article <1992Oct1.140643.9775@cadsun.corp.mot.com> shang@corp.mot.com writes: >> >>Thank you, Raymond, for raising this thread. I'd like to fork it >>to comp.std.c++ for standard committee to reconsider whether template should be >>accepted as C++ standard. > > How would you modify the template idea to be better? It would be nice if templates could have some sort of base class derivation rules. Ie instead of < class T > have which restricts T to be a class publicly derived from Foo. Also for code hiding, compilers should generate intermediate files for templated code so that user's of a template class do not need to have access to the source. - Philippe F. Bertrand pfbertrand@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca Computer Graphics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1