Partial template specialization problem

From:
"Alex Blekhman" <xfkt@oohay.moc>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:38:13 +0300
Message-ID:
<#DuY2XjvGHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Hello,

I'm trying to customize template by partially specializing
it with another template class. However, compiler rejects
the code with error C2975 ("invalid template argument for
'N', expected compile-time constant expression"). Here's the
code:

---------------------------------------
template <int N>
struct X
{
    int goo() const { return N; }
};

template <
    typename T1,
    typename T2,
    typename T3

struct Y
{
    void foo(T1 v1, T2 v2, T3 v3)
    {
        std::wcout << __FUNCTION__ << L"\n"
            << v1 << L"; "
            << v2 << L"; "
            << v3 << L"\n";
    }
};

template <
    typename T2,
    typename T3

struct Y<X<int>, T2, T3>
{
    void foo(X<int> v1, T2 v2, T3 v3)
    {
        std::wcout << __FUNCTION__ << L"\n"
            << v1.goo() << L"; "
            << v2 << L"; "
            << v3 << L"\n";
    }
};

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    X<42> x1;

    Y<int, double, std::wstring> y1;
    Y<X<42>, double, std::wstring> y2;

    y1.foo(1, 3.14, L"Hello");
    y2.foo(x1, 2.72, L"Special");

    return 0;
}
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Specialization `struct Y<X<int>, T2, T3>' is rejected. If I
specialize with concrete X<N> (for example, `struct Y<X<42>,
T2, T3>'), then everything compiles and runs properly.
However, I cannot predict the value of N, of course.

Is there any workaround?

Thanks in advance
Alex

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