Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> Executive summary: C++0x will in all likelihood be C++11, export finally >>> gets the axe (thank God), >> >> Yay! >> > > I had to look up what export templates were. It *seemed* like a good > thing, but judging by these reactions it sounds like there was some sort > of critical flaw with them? >
Herb Sutter did a great article on it: http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184401563 http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184401584 Basically what it comes down to is that they don't really work and that trying to make them work breaks things. On top of that, they're really hard to implement, and I believe that only one group has done it (and as Bearophile pointed out, it took them long to implement template exports than it did for them to implement the entire java specification). - Jonathan M Davis
