Re: How to overcome overloading ambiguity
"Fred Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> writes:
In my software I need a vector of boolean values.
My first attempt was to use vector<bool>, but vector has a specialization for the bool type
with unwanted implications. For example, I need to pass elements of the vector as
reference to bool (bool&) to certain functions which may modify the value of such elements.
This is not possible with vector<bool>.
My next idea was to create a class Boolean_t which can be used instead of the bool type,
with transparent functionality. So I attempted the following:
class Boolean_t {
Just do:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
namespace My { typedef unsigned char Bool; enum { no=0,yes=1 }; }
int main(){
std::vector<My::Bool> v;
v.push_back(My::no);
v.push_back(My::yes);
My::Bool& b=(*(v.begin()));
b=My::yes;
std::cout<<int(v.front())<<" "<<int(v.back())<<std::endl;
return(0);
}
/*
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "/tmp/" -*-
Compilation started at Tue Jun 16 12:16:38
SRC="/tmp/b.c++" ; EXE="b" ; g++ -g3 -ggdb3 -o ${EXE} ${SRC} && ./${EXE} && echo status = $?
1 1
status = 0
Compilation finished at Tue Jun 16 12:16:39
*/
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