template syntax

[Walter Bright]

On 1/30/2019 1:28 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Recent versions of C++ ostensibly have "solved" that problem, so that no
> intervening space is needed anymore.

I implemented the lexer hack back in the 90's, but had to back it out to get it 
through the C++98 test suite. Then, I had to add it back in to match later C++ 
Standards :-)


> Of course, that doesn't really solve the problem; it only introduces
> more complexity in the parser / lexer, and in all likelihood more
> pathological corner cases to come back and bite you when you least
> expect it.

I think the .template syntax is to work around such a corner case.