Re: overloading with templates

"Ron AF Greve" <me@localhost> wrote:


Ok, thanks to all of you, I'll post an exhaustive code then!

After fixing my code, now I am trying to do the other way round: from a
string to either a type or a vector. However, I cannot compile my code,
due to a "call to fromString(std::string &) is ambiguous":

#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template<class T> T fromString(string src)
{
   return "output T" << endl;

};

template<class T> vector<T> fromString(string src)
{
   return "output vector of T" << endl;

};

int main()
{
   string s("3.1415");
   cout << fromString<double>( s ) << endl;

   return 0;

}

I hope my code is ok. I paid attention to specializing the call to the
template function, but as I said, I am learning C++ so I am still making
mistakes!

If I specialize the call with an explicit reference to a double output,
why is it still ambiguous?

Thanks & cheers!

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