I'm curious as to where discusion of templates is occuring ....

For example:

In considering templates for current code, the following situation came
up:

 template <class Key, class Value>
 class Mapping {

     static const int defaultTableSize;
     static const int defaultMaximumDensity;
     static const float defaultGrowthRate;

 }

To initialize these static variables, a template of the form

 template <class Key, class Value>
 const int Mapping<Key,Value>::defaultTableSize = 11;

is needed -- however, E&S states that ``The declaration in a
template-declaration must declare or define a function or a class.''

It seems pretty clear that this type of assignment should be allowed.

steven parkes ---------------------------------------
University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory
steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu -------------------------