Query: are typedef templates supported in C++. and on the VAC 6 compiler?

[tropos]

I'm trying to use the 'typedef templates' idiom, mentioned in
Alexandrescu's work on templates. Here's a Dr Dobbs article from 2002
that says they are a proposed C++ standard:
http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403850

My compiler (Visual Age C 6.0) rejects them. Are they supported? Were
they ever introduced into the language standard?

Here is an example:

template<typename A, typename B class X { /* ... */ };
template<typename T typedef X<T,int Xi;
Xi<double Ddi; // equivalent to X<double,int>

The compiler flags the second line with an error: "A typedef
declaration must not be a template."

(Please reply to this group.)

[Barry]

tropos wrote:

I'm trying to use the 'typedef templates' idiom, mentioned in
Alexandrescu's work on templates. Here's a Dr Dobbs article from 2002
that says they are a proposed C++ standard:
http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403850

My compiler (Visual Age C 6.0) rejects them. Are they supported? Were
they ever introduced into the language standard?

Here is an example:

template<typename A, typename B class X { /* ... */ };
template<typename T typedef X<T,int Xi;
Xi<double Ddi; // equivalent to X<double,int>

The compiler flags the second line with an error: "A typedef
declaration must not be a template."

"template typedef" is a new language feature in C++0X,
I think your compiler does NOT support it

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Thanks
Barry

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On 2007-09-17 17:17, tropos wrote:

I'm trying to use the 'typedef templates' idiom, mentioned in
Alexandrescu's work on templates. Here's a Dr Dobbs article from 2002
that says they are a proposed C++ standard:
http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403850

My compiler (Visual Age C 6.0) rejects them. Are they supported? Were
they ever introduced into the language standard?

Here is an example:

template<typename A, typename B class X { /* ... */ };
template<typename T typedef X<T,int Xi;
Xi<double Ddi; // equivalent to X<double,int>

The compiler flags the second line with an error: "A typedef
declaration must not be a template."

They are not part of the current standard (C++03), but will (probably)
be part of the next (C++0x) which is planned to be finished 2009. So
unless you compiler have some non-standard extensions they should not be
supported.

--
Erik Wikström