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Date: Fri,  7 Mar 2008 10:49:25 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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i don't remember typename and checked my copy of the Bjorne's design
and evolution of c++ and it's not there either.  apparently it evovled
some more.

you know you're in trouble when you have to add keywords to help the
compiler (not the programmer)

> There was a time when you said
> 	template <typename x, typename y>
> instead of
> 	template <class x, class y>
> (Was it TC++PL 2nd edition?) The former is still allowed.
>
> It is also used when the context that a variable declaration is in is
> ambiguous, such as this: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/
> pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.xlcpp8a.doc/language/ref/
> keyword_typename.htm