[Bug c++/49637] template function overload incorrectly ambiguous

[timothyjgiese at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49637

--- Comment #8 from Timothy J Giese <timothyjgiese at gmail dot com> 2011-07-05 18:02:26 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > Created attachment 24686 [details]
> > > minimal test case
> > 
> > IMO this is ambiguous.
> 
> > When doing partial ordering, in both cases the 'T'
> > remains undeduced.
> 
> That's OK; T doesn't need to be deduced, because it is explicitly passed in.
> Only the second argument needs to be deduced.

OH.  I think I see what you are saying here.  I now think that you're saying
"the partial ordering will try to deduce the arguments regardless of whether or
not you tell it not to deduce it."

Damn, I wouldn't have written the C++ standard that way.

I now have to tell people to specialize versions of
template< T_iterator, T_const_iterator, T_value_type >
instead of 
template<T>
..and pray that their implementations do indeed use the right "T" for each of
the arguments.  :(