KDE/kdelibs/kjs

[Peter Kümmel]

Darin Adler wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah, the macros are used inside the KJS namespace, that makes more sense.

> 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.

Then I'll stop blaming ms in the mentioned comment.

Thanks again,
Peter