Re: [boost] Metrowerks: member template specialization problem

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-31 00:44:01

Daryle Walker wrote:
> On 5/27/04 3:20 AM, "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I get the following error from metrowerks:
> >
> >    http://tinyurl.com/2z6st
>
> Unless you already altered the files, this error and the problem below
> don't look related.  

I've altered the files already.

> For this error, are you sure you #included <string>?  
> Or maybe the previous line/statement wasn't ended correctly.

Yes, I think something like this is the cause for the new error.

> > It seems that given:
> >
> >   template<>
> >   bool
> >   basic_config_file_iterator<wchar_t>::getline(std::string& s);
> >
> >   template<class charT>
> >   bool
> >   basic_config_file_iterator<charT>::getline(std::string& s)
> >   {
> >       return std::getline(*is, s);
> >   }

> Is the first version supposed to mean anything?  

Well, yes.

> Are you allowed to 
> "specialize" a specific class member function _instead_ of specializing the
> entire class?  (i.e. Make a new basic_config_file_iterator<wchar_t> class
> specialization instead of just one method.)

Yes, the standard allows it, and a number of compilers (gcc, vc7.1, comeau) 
have no problems with it.

- Volodya