Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:49 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7QGJnu9017079 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:49 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7QGFM6K012120 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:29 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7QA7Es0003678; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:14 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 290195 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:14 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7QGFD1B030567 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:13 +0200 Received: from av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.181]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7QGExhE005862 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:15:03 +0200 Received: by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 76C3437FFF; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5012337EBF for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Kuben.local (90-230-192-94-no86.tbcn.telia.com [90.230.192.94]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DEE37E5F for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:24:43 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A8986E9.5090209@morningstar2.co.uk> <3F0FECF5-03FB-44C2-99D6-07C3F6987F05@gmail.com> <19083.59487.548225.750361@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <4A8BF36D.6040000@morningstar2.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id n7QGFD1B030568 Message-ID: <4A950D91.8050505@residenset.net> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:21 +0200 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: template types To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4A8BF36D.6040000@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Aug 2009 16:19:49.0877 (UTC) FILETIME=[090D5250:01CA2669] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6008 On 2009-08-19, Joseph Wright wrote: > I'd say "template class" is clearer than "template type" (you could also > consider "set", but I'm not so sure about that). "Class" could be misleading. In many flavours of OO, it is the classes that contain implementation of things, so in that the term sounds more like templates (and object similarly correspond to instance). "Type" as in "type of function pointer" matches the template type concept fairly well. Lars Hellström