Re: unqualified name in template

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:26:28 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D39A4CEB-7327-437D-85B3-2DC0FAB5FA72@microsoft.com

1. Sometimes we use qualified name in template? I have never usage of
qualified names in template.


You probably never piloted a plane. Does this prove that nobody ever
pilots a plane?

Does Bjarne means some code like this,

Foo<::myType> or Foo<Somenamespace::myType> or Foo<SomeClass::myType>


More likely like this:

template <typename Container>
void add_default(Container& c) {
    typedef typename Container::value_type V;
    c.push_back( V() );
}

Before you lock onto this - no, I don't think this specific function is
particularly useful. It's just the first thing I thought of to
demonstrate a qualified name used in a template.

Does Bjarne indicate qualified names used in a template coule be
bound to a local name?


A qualified name can never resolve to a local variable - in a template
or otherwise. Only entities defined at class or namespace scope can be
referred to with qualified names.

For example, we define a local namespace


There ain't no such thing as a local namespace.

void f()
{
// inside local function f
namespace localns {
   struct foo;
};
vector<localns::foo> vc;
}


Have you actually tried to compile this nonsense? No? I thought so.
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