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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/04
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Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

> You have not read the literature correctly, or you have not read the
> correct literature :-) C++ templates can be (according to the standard,
> but not yet in reality) separately compiled, and many errors within the
> template can be caught before instantiation. You are correct in that it
> is unlikely that a C++ will offer anything but the full-expansion style
> of template instantiation.

The C++ standard allows templates to be separately compiled.
And the Ada standard allows garbage collection.
And the C standard allows array-bounds checking.
;-)

- Bob