Re: Is there a way to differentiate between the const version and non-const version of a member function ?

From:
Thomas Maeder <maeder@glue.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
25 Apr 2006 05:42:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<m2slo4eoc9.fsf@glue.ch>
Helfer Thomas <helferthomas@free.fr> writes:

Following my previous post called "Barton and nackman tricks : how
to enforce at compile time that a derived class has overloaded a
given method ?", I have written the following piece of code :

 namespace concept_check{
 struct Test_is_same{

    typedef char Small;
    struct Big{
      char dummy[2];
    };

    template<class A, class B>
    static Small test(const A, const B);

    template<class A>
    static Big test(const A,const A);

  };
}

#define METHOD_IS_OVERLOADED(x,y,z)
(sizeof(::concept_check::Test_is_same::test(&x::z,&y::z))==sizeof(::concept_check::Test_is_same::Small))


If anything, this will check that y has over*ridden* z, not over*loaded*.

But in my experience, code that depends on detecting this typically
has a design problem. So why do you want to know at all?

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