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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Ada & MacOS
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:13:15 +0100
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>> Of corse not at easy as displayed here. It was deeply nested inside a
>> template. So one could not the see the type mismatch imediatly.
> 
> The same compiler as above, with a template:
> "ComeauTest.c", line 2: error: a reference of type "int &" (not
> const-qualified)
> cannot be initialized with a value of type "unsigned int"
> R &key (P &x) { return x; }
> ^
> detected during instantiation of
> "R &key<R,P>(P &) [with R=int, P=unsigned int]"

Then there is hope for C++ after all - at least one compiler which gets it
right.

>> But how about a little quiz: Which of the two compiler in question where
>> right?
 
> Neither, of course.

Well then we know what IBM C++ (3.08) and MS C++ (Studio.NET) have in
common ;-) .

Martin
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