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Re: Java vs C++

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"Joshua Cranmer" <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 02/06/2011 11:11 AM, Mike Schilling wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Thomas Richter" <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> wrote in message
>> news:iimf47$soo$1@news.belwue.de...
>>>
>>> I beg your pardon? C++ allows nested templates since C++99 and before.
>>> The only issue here is a notational one, namely that you had to write
>>> A<B<C> > (note the space behind B<C>) to avoid >> being parsed as a
>>> token (shifting, namely). That is the only thing that got fixed in
>>> C++0x, not nesting templates which is part of the language since C++99.
>>
>> This surprises me. Given all the difficult parsing needed to make sense
>> of C++, it seems like this small bit of lexical analysis should never
>> have been a sticking point.
>
> When Bjarne Stroustrup gave a talk about C++0x to my university, one of 
> the things he said was it took him several tries to get the compiler 
> vendors to agree to support that minor lexical analysis. The only way he 
> could convince them to do it was to point out that all the major compilers 
> basically had an error message in that case which said "add a space, 
> idiot", so all they had to do was remove that error message.

Like when you call a 9-digit number and the phone tells you that you need to 
dial a 1 first. 

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Re: Java vs C++ Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-02-06 12:59 -0500
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