Re: a hard problem about template specification

From:
"Road.Tang" <roadtang@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:36:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<6a72f72f-e0e2-4612-9df5-5fb954487e4f@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 20, 9:55 am, wan...@ihep.ac.cn wrote:

Hi,
 I know there are many experienced C++ experts be here, i have a
puzzle :

(1) template <typename L, typename R, bool rL = false, bool rR =
flase > class A{.......};

(2) template <typename L, typename R> class
A<L,R,true,true>{......};

and there is a partial specification operator :
(3) template < >A<L,R>::operator()(int){......};


this is syntax error.

int main(){
     ......
     return (new A<int,int,true,true>())->(5);
     ...

}

in the main function, in the return sentence ......->(5);, we called
the operator(),
I think it should call class (2)'s or it's base class's operator (),
but the result is that it called the operator in (3).


basically, it will call the best match and specific one.
well, the result indicates your (3) is best match and the most
specific operator for A<int, int, true, true>..

but you know, both compile and i doesn't understand the syntax error
code.

-roadt

Who can tell me some? thanks!

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