Re: We have a new standard!

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 14:52:31 -0500
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wibbled:

Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Who knows. The C++ committee certainly has form on this - typename replaced
class in template definitions when they realised 10 years after everyone else

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that reusing class in that particular case was somewhat confusing.

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Stroustrup in section 23.2 of his 4th edition C++ book notes that
these two are equivalent:
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   template<typename X>
   template<class X>
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but that for typename X, X need not be a class.

Huh? X doesn't have to be a class in the 2nd example either.