Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #3270: Ambiguous conversion, even though no conversion exists

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #3270: Ambiguous conversion, even though no conversion exists
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-21 21:15:13

#3270: Ambiguous conversion, even though no conversion exists
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  Reporter:  Olaf Lenz <lenzo@…>                  |       Owner:  dgregor 
      Type:  Bugs                                 |      Status:  closed  
 Milestone:  Boost 1.40.0                         |   Component:  function
   Version:  Boost 1.39.0                         |    Severity:  Problem 
Resolution:  invalid                              |    Keywords:          
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Changes (by steven_watanabe):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 lenzo@…]:
 > I must, however, admit, that I am currently not able to pinpoint the
 precise problem: why does the compiler first think that there is a
 conversion from any object to a boost.function object, and only later
 notice that it cannot call the object?

 That's just the way C++ works.  The compiler only checks the declaration
 (which is correct), not the definition.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3270#comment:5>
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