From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 13:30:47 EDT
Martin wrote:
>
> On Sun, 5 May 2002, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>
> > I'm all for using templates, but I think that you will find some
> > "resistance" here...
>
> The resistance is that MSVC does not do templates. Since Windows is a
> major target platform we can't use templates.
As others have pointed out, msvc is able to handle (more or less :-)
templates.
The main problem that msvc has with templates is that it doesn't support
partial specialization (but it seems that they've finally implemented
partial specialization in the microsoft internal version of the compiler...)
But you don't need partial specialization to implement a templatized UT_Map
(as the dinkumware implementation of std::map shows).
Anyway, as I said, templates are not need to do what Christian was asking
for (you only need them to do it in a sane^H^H^H^H typesafe way), and I
don't want to start another big flamewar about the use of templates (call me
loser :), so I hope that the discussion will end here.
Cheers,
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