Re: Concepts and conversions

From:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro_Lamar=E3o?= <pedro.lamarao@gmail.com>
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Date:
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:34:17 CST
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On 20 abr, 08:07, tasjae...@gmail.com wrote:

My question is, if a constrained function template uses Pootle as
follows:

  template <Pootle P>
  void g(P&& p) { f(p, X()); }

will this work with S as the template parameter? In particular, is a
double conversion performed (from X->Y->Z)?


For this piece of code:

// begin code

struct X { };
struct Y { Y(); Y(X); };
struct Z { Z(); Z(Y); };

struct S { };

void
f (S const&, Z);

template <typename T>
void
g (T const& t) { f(t, X()); }

void
h () { g(S()); }

//end code

Visual Studio 2005 gives me the error:

------ Build started: Project: tmp2, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
test.cpp
c:\documents and settings\psilva\meus documentos\visual studio
2005\projects\remoting\tmp2\test.cpp(12) : error C2664: 'f' : cannot
convert parameter 2 from 'X' to 'Z'
        No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform
this conversion, or the operator cannot be called
        c:\documents and settings\psilva\meus documentos\visual studio
2005\projects\remoting\tmp2\test.cpp(15) : see reference to function
template instantiation 'void g<S>(const T &)' being compiled
        with
        [
            T=S
        ]
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\psilva\Meus
documentos\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Remoting\tmp2\Debug
\BuildLog.htm"
tmp2 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
==========

I believe the reason is just that only one user-defined conversion is
allowed.

This rule should not be affected by the use of concept maps.

--
 Pedro Lamar?o

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