Re: [Boost-users] boost::function unusable as overloadable function argument

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::function unusable as overloadable function argument
From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-28 12:08:42

Peter Soetens wrote:

> void foo1(int i, std::string a);
> void foo1(int i, boost::function<void(void)> foo );
> 
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>   //boost::function<void(void)> foo = "hello"; // this line won't compile
> 
>   foo1( 3, "hello" ); //error: call of overloaded ‘foo1(int, const
> char [6])’ is ambiguous
> 
>   return 0;
> }

When I've encountered that, I've sometimes defined an additional overload:

void fool(int i, const char* a) { fool(i, std::string(a)); }