Re: [boost] RE: smart ptr changes

From: John Max Skaller (skaller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-27 14:05:58

Jonathan H Lundquist wrote:

[function template specialisation syntax]

> > Why isn't the obvious syntax:
> >
> > template<>
> > void f<int, long>(int, long)
> >
> >
> >       Because it fails to correctly identify
> >which template is being specialised in all cases.
> >For example:
> >
> >       template<class U, class V>
> >       void f(U,V); //1
> >
> >       template<class U, class V>
> >       void f(V,U); //2
> 
> Thanks for expounding, but aren't the two above ambiguous anyway without any
> specializations?

        What do you mean 'the above two'? 
Do you mean a _call_? 

        int i; string s;
        f<int,string>(i,s);

Doesn't this call match 1, but not 2?

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