Re: Rules for template parameter deduction
Dats wrote:
In the following program it seems it is not possible to deduce the
template argument T in the call to f().
How can I specify that I want a free-standing template f<T>() to
work on a type specified by A<T>::type, with T deduced
automatically? I don't want a member function.
This is called a "non-deduced context", where the compiler is not
required to figure it out. To do so, would require the compiler to
instantiate A for *every* possible T and check the resulting type
member.
Bo Persson
template <typename T>
struct A
{
typedef T type;
type get() const {return type();}
};
template <typename T>
void f(typename A<T>::type t) {}
int main()
{
A<double> a;
// works
f<double>(a.get());
// compiler error
// could not deduce template argument for 'T'
f(a.get());
return 0;
}
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