Re: [Boost-users] template trick

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] template trick
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-18 20:51:03

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 04:42:13 -0800, gast128 <gast128_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I recently watched Stephen Lavavej's excellent channel9 video 'Core C++,  
> 2
> of n' in which he described a nice trick to stop template argument  
> deduction:
>
> template <typename T>
> void (T t1, typename std::identity<T>::type t2)
> {
> }
>
> Browsing the internet for a similar problem, I recently discovered that
> Peter Dimov already described this trick in 2002 in 'Template function  
> type
> inference with references' comp.lang.c++.moderated.
>
> Boost is more for the libraries, but could it also reserve some space for
> documenting these template tricks?

You may want to bring this on the developers' list; and making the subject  
a little more informative would probably get your message more reads,  
something like: "[docs] Add template tricks section."

Mostafa