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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shellx.best.com>
Subject: Re: ada and robots
Date: 1997/06/18
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Date: 1997-06-18T00:00:00+00:00
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On 18 Jun 1997, Jon S Anthony wrote:
> In article <gwinn-1706972242370001@dh5055155.res.ray.com> gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes:
> > We also had problems with different compilers handling generics
> > differently, especially with respect to the allowed nesting depth.
> 
> Again - not relevant at this point.  Actually it probably _is_
> relevant only it now applies - IN SPADES - to C++ templates.

What Jon, you've been having problems using C++ templates? Why, they are 
a relatively new feature of the language, having only been described in 
Lippman's C++ Primer 2ed. :-)

PS: I bought that book when it came out, in 1991. I was trying to use it 
with SGI's version of CFront 3.0. Templates, nested classes (which are not 
as useful as Java's inner classes) and exceptions were unusable then, and 
still so several years thereafter. 

-- Brian