Re: Is it possible to limit the template argument to a few class types?

From:
Thomas Maeder <maeder@glue.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:21:39 CST
Message-ID:
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fabio_cannizzo@yahoo.com writes:

I am trying to override some basic arithmetic operators, e.g.

class A {};
class B {};
class C {};

template <class A1, class A2>
MyClass<A1,A2> operator +( const A1&, const A2& ) {}

Here, both template arguments A1 and A2 can be either of type A, B or
C, but nothing else.

As soon as I write the code above, it clashes with other similar
template functions declared, for istance, in STL iterators, and the
compiler get confused at which one it should use.

Obviously, I can solve the problem if instead of using templates, I
use overload for all the posible combinations of A, B, and C, or if I
define all possible the overload as members of the class A, B and C.

But I was wondeing if there is any magic I can do, may be inheriting
A, B and C from some common class, to keep a unique definition, as
above.


You are not very specific about the nature of your problems.

But in general, it's a good idea to avoid declaring names in the
global namespace. Do you problems persist if you wrap classes A, B and
C and the operator+ in a namespace?

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