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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: "Must instantiate controlled types at library level." Why?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 05:39:55 +0000 (UTC)
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> But OK. You state that "The std::vector template class is not
> a first-class citizen". I haven't a clue as to what that might
> mean. All a std::vector really is in implementation is a record
> conatining a length and a couple of pointers. You can pass it
> and return it by value. It's as "first-class" as anything else
> in the language.

I think by that, Ludovic meant that std::vector is a library as opposed
to something built into the language (e.g. int's, float's, pointers, etc)..

-- Martin