Re: Iterators and ints get confused in template parameter
Juha Nieminen wrote:
I have looked at the std::list source code in the gcc C++ libraries,
and I don't see any fancy trick being used to differentiate between the
two assign() functions.
Actually I was wrong. The assign() functions themselves don't use any
trick, but the internal functions they call seem to use some kind of
obscure template magic to differentiate between the two cases.
The code in question is filled with names starting with _ and __, for
example:
typedef typename std::__is_integer<_InputIterator>::__type _Integral;
This seems to be telling me that this is not standard library code,
but code specific to gcc (or whatever STL library it's using). Thus it
wouldn't probably be very portable to try to copy this implementation
verbatim.
Any suggestions how I could solve this problem with standard STL code
only, and preferably without having to reimplement enormous libraries?
(Also I wouldn't want to make specializations for assign() for each
possible integral type.)
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