  <span class="keyword">int</span>
  <span class="special">&gt;</span>
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      and use this in our metaprogramming code. Our metafunction now tells us whether
      the nested type FindType has a static member data called MyData of type 'int',
      even if FindType does not actually exist as we have specified it as a type.
      If we had tried to do this using normal C++ nested type notation our metafunction
      code above would be:
    </p>
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