Section 14.3.2.4 of the ANSI/ISO C++ specification (dtd 4/28/95)
states in part "A template can be either explicitly instantiated for
a given argument list or be implicitly instantiated".  Is this an
affirmation that C++ compilers meeting the standard are REQUIRED to
support implicit template instantiation?  The wording in the spec
does not make this crystal clear.
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"Alfred R. Schuler" <schuler@ait.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

>Section 14.3.2.4 of the ANSI/ISO C++ specification (dtd 4/28/95)
>states in part "A template can be either explicitly instantiated for
>a given argument list or be implicitly instantiated".  Is this an
>affirmation that C++ compilers meeting the standard are REQUIRED to
>support implicit template instantiation?

Yes, that's the intent.

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