Re: Question about elaborate CRTP - is the friend declaration ill-formed?

From:
Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarbati@libero.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
15 Sep 2006 20:15:47 -0400
Message-ID:
<MnFOg.110230$_J1.838233@twister2.libero.it>
Mikhail Parakhin ha scritto:

The fact that we have template template parameters is irrelevant, even
with non-template template parameters it would be ok.


I don't quite understand what you mean. My understanding is that template
template parameter is the gist here. If it wasn't template template
parameter, it would be something like
template <class P_Policy>
class T_MyClass
{
   friend class P_Policy; // Illegal - resolves to "template
type-parameter"!
};


Oh, now I understand your point. That's illegal, but not because
"P_Policy" is a *type* parameter, but simply because it is the name of a
parameter *used alone*. But if the parameter is used as part of a
template-id, then it's legal:

template <template<class >class P_Policy>
class T_MyClass
{
    friend class P_Policy<T_MyClass<P_Policy> >; // legal!
};

template <class P_Policy>
class T_MyClass
{
    friend class AnyTemplate<P_Policy>; // legal!
};

They're both legal because "P_Policy<T_MyClass<P_Policy> >" and
"AnyTemplate<P_Policy>" are template-ids.

Ganesh

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