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[temp] Overall definition of term "template" #593

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FrankHB opened this issue Dec 24, 2015 · 1 comment
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[temp] Overall definition of term "template" #593

FrankHB opened this issue Dec 24, 2015 · 1 comment
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FrankHB commented Dec 24, 2015

Moved from #425:

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1 A template defines a family of classes or functions or an alias for a family of types.

Variable templates should be listed alone.

Should the static data members also be here?

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jensmaurer commented Dec 13, 2016

On the face of it, this is a fairly trivial issue: When we added variable templates, we didn't augment the definition of "template". I don't think we need to make this issue bigger than necessary, given that we don't refer to a plain "template" often (because it's not a super-useful term in its generality).

Note that we nowadays have the term "templated entity" that can be used when we wan to talk about "something that is dependent on a template parameter".

Thus, I'll re-offer the change from #425 (with the Oxford comma) as the appropriate fix here.

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