BG> You know the grammar in "The C++ Programming Language", right? Well,
 BG> why does the /decl-specifier/ non-terminal use the undefined
 BG> /template-specifier/ non-terminal?
It doesn't in mine.  But the first edition of TC++PL didn't mention templates 
all that much anyway.  (-:
The reason is, of course, that templates evolved at the same time as TC++PL 
was being revised.
 BG> Better yet, anyone here know of a more rigidly defined C++ grammar?
The one in Annex A of the ISO C++ Standard.
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