On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 14:25:00 +0200,
Ig**********@cern.ch wrote:
Does somebody remember, when templates appeared really in C++ compilers
and became fully operational, and also when they appeared in C++ standard?
Thanks!
Here's a quote from Bjarne Stroustrup's "The Design and Evolution of
C++" (Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54330-3, p. 337 [beginning of
chapter 15]):
"Templates and exceptions were explicitly mentioned in the 'whatis'
paper [Stroustrup, 1986b](§3.15) as desirable for C++, the designs for
the two features were presented in papers [Stroustrup, 1988b] [Koenig,
1989b] [Koenig, 1990], in the ARM, and their inclusion into the
language was mandated in the proposal for standardization of C++.
Thus, even though the implementation and availability of templates and
exception handling in C++ post-dates the start of the standardization
effort, their design and the desire for them goes much further back in
C++'s history."
Great book for this kind of stuff!
--
Bob Hairgrove
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