> Peter Vreman wrote:
>> I did some tests with g++. It looks like it parses the template
>> 'normally'
>> and don't handle it like a macro. When instantiating the template the
>> generic type is replaced.
>
> What tests did you do to come to this conclusion ? I mean, how can one
> see how g++ parses things ?
Expiriment, feed g++ code with errors in the statements. With macro's
those errors won't be show until the macro is used. But with templates
this is diffent:
template<typename T> class test
{
public:
T data;
string s;
int i;
void p()
{
show(data);
i=i*3+data+s; <--- this is allowed until instantiated
i=i*3+s; <--- this is not allowed
data=data;
}
};
>> full node tree when the generic is instantiated. But that means that it
>> must be known that
>
> ....yessss? :-)
This is more important than the syntactical sugar. The rules where to
declare generics and how/when they are parsed must be known. The syntax
can be added in the end.
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