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> One time I tried to create a list<map<int>>, and my syntax errors caused the dead to walk among the living. yeah coffee is a heck of a drug ;-)

• moron4hire 2y ago
  Older C++ compilers couldn't distinguish between a right-shift operator and the closing of multiple template parameter lists, but few people figured out you just had to put spaces between all those >s.
  • Thorrez 2y ago
    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 https://stackoverflow.com/a/15785583
    • moron4hire 2y ago
      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.
      • Thorrez 2y ago
        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.
  • frutiger 2y ago
    The problem is that map requires two template parameters and not just one.