From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: sethml@ofb.net
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/3033: 'using typename' construct doesn't work 
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:26:00 -0000
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The following reply was made to PR c++/3033; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: sethml@ofb.net
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, debian-gcc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: c++/3033: 'using typename' construct doesn't work 
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:22:49 -0700

 > sethml@ofb.net writes:
 > 
 > | 	C++ allows the word 'typename' after a 'using' directive.  _The C++ Pro
 > gramming Language_ (third edition) [Stroustrup], section A.7 (Grammar/Declara
 > tions) defines the using directive:
 > | 	  using-declaration:
 > | 	      "using" "typename"(opt) "::"(opt) nested-name-specifier 
 > | 	      unqualified-id ";"
 > 
 > The C++ grammar is not context-free, you cannot deduce construct
 > validity just from pure grammar productions.
 
 OK, fine.  The question remains: is this a legal construct, or not?
 
 Seth