Re: [Boost-users] how to know if a type supports comparison operators

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-06 13:42:04

AMDG

joel falcou wrote:
> Hmm is there any article or paper explaining the trick and why it's 
> different of the classic idiom using the ellipsis argument to 
> discrimiante the correct call to the inner function.

Operators cannot be overloaded with the ellipsis.

> IN the same vein, why using a static reference instead of constructing 
> the object in place in the sizeof operator ?

Using a reference avoids requiring T to have a default constructor.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe