Anything written by James Mickens is worth your time.
I like him a lot. He's kind of doing a Dave Barry thing, right?
> He's kind of doing a Dave Barry thing, right?
I definitely see the resemblance.
The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)
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Re: The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)
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The old C++ language specification said you needed a space. C++11 changed that, saying you don't need a space. https://stackoverflow.com/a/15785583
In 2005, I didn't know anyone who could afford a copy of the specification. My point was that many of the other C++ programmers I knew at the time assumed it wasn't possible to nestedly use type parameters, so they just avoided it. I'm sure there were probably a cryptic error message and several toxic message board communities involved, too.
I think hardly any C++ programmers look at the actual specification even today. Once in a while someone will reference the draft specification immediately prior to the actual specification (because the draft is available for free). People mostly look at sites like stack overflow and cppreference.com , via Google. I don't know what the status of that type of documentation was in 2005.