Re: template argument deduction oddity?

From:
Thomas Maeder <maeder@glue.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:54:46 CST
Message-ID:
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news.nospam.cechner@gmail.com writes:

This is not a big complicated generic thing, but the compiler is
having some trouble.

   template <class D>
   struct GenericThing
   {
      struct T { };
   };

   struct Stream
   { };

   template <class D>
   Stream& operator<< (
      Stream& out,
      typename GenericThing<D>::T const & thing)
   {
      return out;
   }

   int main()
   {
      GenericThing<int>::T t;
      Stream s;
      s << t;
   }

I get this error in MSVC++ (similar problems in GCC) on the last line
in main:

error C2783: 'Stream &operator <<(Stream &,const GenericThing<D>::T
&)' : could not deduce template argument for 'D'

So what rule of C++ is preventing this deduction?


None. There's no rule in C++ that causes the deduction to happen.

I presume it has something to do with the argument type being
*inside* the template class as opposed to *being* the templated
type.

And how would one get around this problem?


You could use a traits based approach.

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