Officially, what is typename for?

Following is the quote from Josuttis book:

The keyword typename was introduced to specify that the identifier that follows is a type. Consider the following example:

template <class T>
Class MyClass
{
  typename T::SubType * ptr;
  ...
};

Here, typename is used to clarify that SubType is a type of class T. Thus, ptr is a pointer to the type T::SubType. Without typename, SubType would be considered a static member. Thus

T::SubType * ptr

would be a multiplication of value SubType of type T with ptr.

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