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From: etiaseti@inet.uni-c.dk (Peter Juhl)
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Subject: Re: Templates
Date: 23 Oct 1995 08:03:26 GMT
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>   carroll@auriga.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Chu-Carroll) writes:

  
MC>  A template specifies an *untyped parameterized textual replacement*
MC>  which can be instantiated to generate real code. It's a *nasty*
MC>  mechanism.
MC>  
MC>  There's a number of problems with it. For details, ask anyone who's
MC>  tried using template code - most of us who've gone through that agony
MC>  have horror stories. The central problem is the fact that it's an
MC>  untyped mechanism in a strongly typed language - you end up getting
MC>  some incomprehensible type errors as a result of template
MC>  instantiations that generate type incorrect code.
MC>  

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I do not have any such horror stories, maybe you can supply some for future reference. And
I have used templates quite heavily in my code.


--- peter

Peter Juhl 		etiaseti@inet.uni-c.dk