Re: Templates in FPL?

On 22 May 2001, Carl R. Witty wrote:

"D. Tweed" writes:

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In my experience the C++ idiom `you only pay for what you use' (==> templates are essentially type-checked macros) and the fact most compilers are evolved from C compilers makes working with templates a real pain in practice.

I'm not sure what you mean by type-checked here. Templates are not type-checked at definition time, but are type-checked when they are used; the same is true of ordinary macros.

I was thinking in terms of (to take a really simple example) template<class T> void initialiseArray(T** arr,const T& elt,int bnd) { for(int i=0;i