Re: [boost] Koenig lookup, names in std:: - Summary

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-25 15:11:38

Dietmar Kuehl <dietmar_kuehl_at_[hidden]> writes:

| Hi,
| Matt Austern wrote:
| 
| > Yes, a paper on this subject would be very useful.  I don't know of any
| > promising solutions other than function template partial specialization
| > and overloads with namespace std.
| 
| It ain't pretty but if we really need function template partial
| specialization
| we can emulate it:
| 
|   template <typename T>
|   struct swap_t {

That is what I used to suggest.  It provides a uniform framework hook
for standard function "specialisations".  It doesn't have the
overloading surprise.

-- Gaby