Partial ordering bug (?) in egcs

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Kunert <kunert@physik.tu-dresden.de> writes:


    Thomas> an exact match for `IndexPlaceholder<N_index>'. I see some
    Thomas> advantages in my interpretation: 
    Thomas> + some useful constructs are supported (e.g. Todd's
    Thomas> example) 
    Thomas> + it's portabel :-)

There is one major disadvantage, though; it's not how the language
works.  :-(

    Thomas> Are there examples that wouldn't work with my point of
    Thomas> view?

Of course; if you were to allow this kind of thing you would change
the way overload resolution behaves.  In Todd's example, you would
remove an ambiguity, but in others you might equally well add one.

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