23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
5:15 p.m.
"Jonathan Wakely" <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> wrote in message news:20050323165335.GA52151@compsoc.man.ac.uk... | On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:06:09PM +0000, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote: | | > "I can't think of any way that this extension could | > break a conforming program, considering that users | > are not permitted to forward-declare standard | > library components" | > | > Is this really so? Why cannot I forward declare a | > stdlib component? | | Opening namespace std for anything except specialisations of standard | library templates (with user-defined types as parameters) is illegal. yes, but why? -Thorsten