Re: [boost] [conversion] ADL and templates

Subject: Re: [boost] [conversion] ADL and templates
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-31 13:19:29

Vicente Botet wrote:
>
> There is something that is troubling me on the fact that the
> developer will customize the conversion function using
> overload and ADL, but that the user could not take advantage
> in a simple way of this overloading. Taking in account that
> Boost.Conversion needs already a customization point to take
> care of conversion of types in the standard library (using
> partial specialization) the addition of the customization
> point using overload doesn't make simpler the user code,
> neither the developers customizing the class, as it would
> need to choose between two customization points that doesn't
> make any difference.
>
> If no one find that the additional customization (via
> overloading) point add some benefit to the library, I will
> prefer to remove it. This will have the advantage of making
> the library quite more simple without limiting his
> expression power.

I have no idea to what you're referring.  I've long since lost any notion of what overloads, customization points, etc. you're discussing.  Can you show, with code, what the choices are and what problems you're addressing?

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