Re: Sharing generic bodies across instantiations.

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 28 Lip, 15:16, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> > Wrong. Macros have nothing to do with templates.
>
> They have the nature

We were talking about the nature of templates, not the nature of
macros.
Macros have nothing to do with templates except for the fact that both
are supported by a single language, but there are also languages that
support only one or none of them. Reasoning about templates based on
macros' nature is pointless.

> Interpreter does not qualify as a compiler,

So the discussion was limited to compilers only? I did not found this
constraint in the original post.
Even if we assume such a limitation of discussion, there is still
nothing particular in the C++ standard that would prevent code sharing
as an implementation strategy for templates.

Interestingly, macros cannot use this strategy by their definition.

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