Re: explicit calling of member template constructor...

From:
werasm <werasm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:35:46 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Mar 25, 10:47 am, Michael Doubez <michael.dou...@free.fr> wrote:

On 24 mar, 11:48, SG <s.gesem...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 Mrz., 10:54, Michael Doubez wrote:

(2)
  template<class T>
  struct ForceType { };

  struct X
  {
    template <class T, class F >
    X( T* p , const ForceType<F>& force_type = ForceType<T>() )
    {
      F* pf = p;//...
    }
  };

  X x(&d,ForceType<Base>());


The default parameter doesn't work here. At least G++ is rejecting it
and I think this is because F cannot be deduced by the default
parameter.


Yes.
=A714.8.2/17: a template type-parameter cannot be deduced from the type
of a function default argument.

[snip]

But I honestly see no advantage over

   struct X
   {
     template <class T>
     X(T*);
   };

   X x(static_cast<base*>(&d));


From the very beginning the question is biased: if you have a template
argument, I don't the reason why you would want to instantiate it with
a base class.
Unless the member function became protected in the derived but then
the cast should obviously be explicit.

--
Michael


Because boost::any when casting back (see its implementation) requires
the exact type, not the polymorphic type....

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