Re: [boost] Using Boost.Function with functions that decay into function pointers

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-19 12:58:05

At 12:41 PM 9/19/2001, Darin Adler wrote:

 >If we think that:
 >
 >    template<typename T> void f(const T&);
 >    template<typename T> void f(T*) { }
 >
 >    int main()
 >    {
 >        int x = 0;
 >        f(&x);
 >    }
 >
 >should unambiguously use the second function template, then I think 
someone
 >needs to raise a new core language issue about it, or add a comment to 
the
 >discussion of issue 214. But I don't think that the existing issue 214
 >covers it. (Nor does issue 200 or 250, for that matter.)

Would you like me to post the above (or similar) on the C++ committee's 
core mailing list to get a reading from the committee?

--Beman