Re: name binding from one template to another
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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A dependent name is one that refers to, or otherwise depends on, the
_internals_ of a parameterized type (e.g. its members or its
associated namespaces). With such names, you can't even figure out
_which_ declaration the name refers to, let alone the type of the
referred-to entity, until the template is instantiated and the
parameterized type becomes concrete.
I want to complement your definition of dependent name. Not only the
internals of a parameterized type, but also the type itself.
That's incorrect, however much you might want it to be so.
For example,
template <class T> void func (T a)
{
vector<T> vc;
T tmp = a;
vc.push_back (a);
return;
}
In the above code, a, tmp are dependent names and vc is not dependent
name.
None of these are dependent names. The only dependent name in this code
is push_back.
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