[boost] Re: enabling ADL even with namespace qualification

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-13 11:26:34

"Daniel Frey" <daniel.frey_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:cfhteq$piv$1_at_sea.gmane.org...

|Hm, good point. The only "solution" I could come up with is shown below,
|but I don't know how portable/robust it is.

|
|    template< typename T >
|    internal f( const T& x )
|    {
|       if( sizeof( f(x),internal() ) == sizeof( char ) ) {
|          // Non-ADL-implementation
|          std::cout << 1 << std::endl;
|       }
|       else {
|          // ADL-forwarder
|          f( x );
|       }
|       return internal();
|    }

why do you return an internal here? I mean, weed want to return f(x).

br

Thorsten