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Hello everyone,

I ran into an interesting problem today. According to my copy of the C++
draft standard, the following code should be legal (see section 14.12.2):

template<class Type, long lKeyType> class Lock;

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///
//                            --- Class Key ---                        //
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///
class Key                                   //
{
public:
                    Key         ();
                    Key         (const Key&);
protected:

private:
    template<class Type, long lKeyType> friend class Lock;
};

However, MS Visual C++ 4.2 will abort compilation in the line defining the
"friend", stating that 'template' was an unexpected token. IMHO, this
should be legal code. Can anyone comment on this ? Is it a compiler
bug/problem or did I just get something wrong ?

Thanks,
Timo

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