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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing
Date: Fri,  7 Mar 2008 06:15:24 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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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


On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> 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
>