Broken function reference error?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec  2, 2002, AWLaFramboise@aol.com wrote:

> template<typename function>
> myclass<function> inst_value(function f) {
>   return myclass<function>(f);
> }

When you try to pass this template function a function name, it decays
to pointer-to-function, so `function' ends up with type pointer to
function.  However, in the following template, there's no such
decaying because of `&', so you end up trying to add a data member of
function type to the other template class, but this is a no-no.

> template<typename function>
> myclass<function> inst_ref(function &f) {
>   return myclass<function>(f);
> }

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