Re: c++/6601: [parser] Parse error when using :: qualified name in template

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/6601; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.ethz.ch>,
   Reiner Hauser <rhauser@fnal.gov>, gcc-gnats <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>,
   lerdsuwa <lerdsuwa@gcc.gnu.org>, gcc-bugs <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,
   gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: c++/6601: [parser] Parse error when using :: qualified name in 
 template
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:19:58 +0100

 Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
 > If we don't have digraphs disabled by default, that'd be something I'd
 > consider changing.
 no, they're in the language. It might be nicer though to fiddle the
 grammar so that where
 	PTYPENAME < SCOPED_NAME 
 appears (under whatever guise it happens to be), we also have the reduction
 	PTYPENAME [ : error >
 	   error ("did you mean '$1 < ::'?")
 
 > > I append a patch to bugs.html below which lists this as a non-bug. It
 > > might be worthwhile for both 3.1 and 3.2.
 > 
 > It looks fine from the webpages side of things, but I'd like one of
 > the C++ maintainers/regulars to Ack this (simply because this is an
 > area I'm not really an expert in).
 ok by me.
 
 nathan
 
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