[boost] Re: Select overload revisited

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-28 15:22:30

Daniel James wrote:
>> I was thinking about the overload resolution functions suggested a
>> while back by Arturo Cuebas[1] and had no idea why the compiler needs to be
>> told the number of parameters in the first place. So I took his code
>> and removed the numbers from functions, and it worked (in gcc). I guess
>> that it didn't work for him because of his compiler.

Funny, I thought we tried everything ;-)

>> Well, it almost worked. Sometimes there is more than the one function
>> that fits the template parameters. So I kept the numbered overloads
>> to be able to match them.

Could you give a general description of the types of cases that don't work?

Jonathan