On 2 December 2016 at 14:25, lhmouse wrote: > It is the evilness of C. > > If the code without `typename` were valid it would be ambiguous, because > `std::map<K,V>::iterator` could well be the name of some static member variable > followed by a less-than operator and what you think is a declaration > looks like an expression statement in spite that in no case is it valid. No. That's a different problem (the case where the "template" keyword is needed).
