[boost] [OT] Hiding template parameters [was: FC++ Formal review is...]

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-16 11:55:25

{- We are still off-topic for boost but at least we don't bother Brian
and all the people who are interested in the FC++ review -}

On 16 Feb 2004 16:39:23 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis
<gdr_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>| This however runs contrary to the principle that I, as a user, should be
>| able to explicitly disambiguate; since I can write a qualified name for a
>| class member but not for a template parameter, it naturally follows that
>| template parameters should hide class members and not vice versa.
>
>That does not follow.  Your raisoning is based on the assumption that
>there is an ambiguity, but there is none.

Come on, he didn't mean it's ambiguous. Just that with one rule the
user can choose what the name should refer to, with the other one
he/she cannot.

Genny.

Genny.