March 31, 2004
1:32 p.m.
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:
<decorator> # almost as easy, or <<decorator>>
Is there near precedent in other languages that I don't know of?
I want to caution against these. Turning </>, which already parse as un-paired, into angle brackets caused embarassing parsing problems for C++. Now such things as A::foo<X> y; have to be written as A::template foo<X> y; ^^^^^^^^-----------keyword disambiguates parse in some cases. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com