on Wed Aug 20 2008, "Simonson, Lucanus J" <lucanus.j.simonson-AT-intel.com> wrote:
On 20/08/2008, Simonson, Lucanus J <lucanus.j.simonson@intel.com> wrote:
I third the question, should we make separating template
declarations
from their definitions a preferred practice?
Daniel wrote:
Some libraries don't do this because they still support older compilers where template functions have to be defined inline.
Is this rational still valid for new libraries? I would imagine that there are a number of recent libraries accepted that don't support the older compilers for other reasons. I was proposing we make it a preferred practice for ongoing and future development. I would not suggest we revise mature libraries to conform to this style. Do you think that is reasonable?
Frankly I find that style adds so much syntactic overhead that it seldom benefits readability. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com