Greg Comeau wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> James Kanze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
>>>James Kanze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>Why g++ never implemented this, I'll never know, given that
>>>>it is pretty much standard practice in the world where g++
>>>>is most used.
>>>It is not at all a *standard* practice, though it is used by
>>>Sun, SGI and IBM compilers.
>>And the older C++ compilers for HP/UX. In just about any
>>CFront derived compiler, in fact.
>>So how widespread does it take for something to be considered
>>a de facto standard. We had it on Sun, SGI, IBM and HP/UX, at
>>least. We even had it on the first Windows compiler to
>>support templates (a port of CFront by some Irish company
>>whose name I've forgotten).
> You're thinking of Glockenspiel. I recall we (Comeau
> Computing) were the first with a cfront based compiler
> supporting templates, but could be recalling it incorrectly.
I was thinking of Glockenspiel, and perhaps I should have said,
the first Windows (or was it still MS-DOS back then) compiler I
heard about which supported templates... I didn't learn about
Comeau until after I'd heard about Glockenspiel, but all things
considered, it's quite likely that you were there before them.
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