KDE/kdelibs/kjs

[Darin Adler]

On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:

> You mean, compiling
>     ::cacheGlobalObject<ClassProto>(exec, *name());
> but not
>     cacheGlobalObject<ClassProto>(exec, *name());
> is standard conform?

Yes.

> What's the reason for this?

Hard to say in just a few words, but basically the latter syntax  
means that this class template has a template function inside the KJS  
namespace as a friend, and the former means that it has a template  
function in the global namespace as a friend. The actual function  
template for cacheGlobalObject is in the global namespace, not the  
KJS namespace.

These rules have changed over time as the C++ language got  
standardized and they worked out the kinks in template syntax. After  
our research I'm pretty sure that GCC does not match the standard in  
this respect, and MSVC does. But of course we could be wrong.

     -- Darin