c++/9278: dependent type in conversion operator bug
David Abrahams
dave@boost-consulting.com
Tue Jan 14 00:22:00 GMT 2003
Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu> writes:
>> > http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_closed.html#18
>>
>> Another obscure difference between C and C++. In C you can use a typedef
>> to void here <http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/dr_157.html>.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. This makes it very clear that the code is
> illegal and should not compile.
>
> Indeed a very obscure feature. (Although, I must admit that, I desperately
> needed something like that not too long ago and had to invent various
> template metaprogramming hoops to work around...)
I needed exactly that yesterday, which is why it came up ;-)
Using SFINAE to rule out certain conversions was my game, but it
didn't fly :(
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