Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest

Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest
From: Tomas Puverle (Tomas.Puverle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-26 21:30:38

Hey Stephan,

> Of course you can.

I know that's what I said but it's not what I meant :)

My point was about the fact that if you have two functions with the following 
signatures

template<typename T>
void swap(T & t);

template<typename T>
T swap(const T & t);

when the user has this

int i;

then there is no way to specify whether or not he wants the copying or the 
swap-in-place version (ok, I can think of a way but I think it's way too 
convoluted)

swap(i); //what does this mean?

I was just trying to explain why I chose to have a swap_in_place<>() rather 
than rely on overloading.

Sorry for any confusion.