[Bug c++/36203] explicit member function template lookup fails from templated function

[starlight at binnacle dot cx]

------- Comment #7 from starlight at binnacle dot cx  2008-05-11 02:42 -------
That little bit of ambiguity bothers me a lot less that writing 
55,000 freaking 'using' statements, which is what I've had to do 
for several years now.

In the real world nobody except idiots name their functions 'f', 
so it doesn't arise as a practical problem.  To the extent it 
does, writing an occasional ::f() and B::f() are much less of a 
problem than the hundreds of stupid 'using' statements I've had 
to write ever since GCC 3.4.  The resulting code is much harder 
to maintain as every time I add some logic I then have spend 30 
minutes or an hour chasing down more 'using's.  The theoretical 
side of the issue makes no impression on people who work for 
living.  Have a switch option for masochists who give a s**t.

Let me be perfectly clear:  Thousands of lines of code worked 
perfectly fine before this slavish standard nonsense.  All 
that's changed is that people like me who used to like templates 
like them a lot less now.  M4 looks better every day.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36203