[boost] Re: abs and swap -or- overloading vs. specialization.

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-18 23:46:35

"Dave Abrahams" <abrahams_at_[hidden]> writes:

| > Doesn't 'partial ordering' let you achive the same effects as "function
| > partial specialisation"?
| 
| You're right.
| 
| > I guess, the right question concerns the technical reason(s) for not
| > allowing template function overloading.
| 
| you mean by users in namespace std?

Yes.

-- Gaby