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Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Fri,  7 Mar 2008 05:21:34 -0500
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> PPS: Why is "typename" a G++ reserved word?

[now safely off-topic; sorry]

Because it is a C++ reserved word.
It gets used in contexts (templates, in particular)
where the parser needs extra help deciding that
a name is going to be used as a type.

Russ