Yeah, this is how I've rewritten it and now it's working as I expect. It even works in Borland (amazingly). Sometimes I think that every feature of C++ is somehow surprising when you first try to use it. Ah well, that's why I get paid! Thanks again, Adam On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:20 -0400, "John Fine" <johnsfine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or distribute the declarations the opposite way to create the opposite > (but more easily non circular) dependency: > > Put the line > template<> const char* getstring<foo::bar>(); > > In the header that defines foo and declares (and maybe defines) bar, > rather than in a header dedicated to getstring.
