Do you think you can impress
me (who actually have experience with the C++ committee work) with such unspecified vague hearsay as "_ In our experience speaking to working programmers, the relatively few who know of export almost without exception misunderstand it_"? No people aren't ignorant and stupid and they don't believe that exported templates have the magical property of being essentially like regular binary code.
It would require a total and abject ignorance of C++ to believe anything like that. You wouldn't have any customization point; it wouldn't have C++ template semantics. —
curiousguy 51 secs ago