Template alias parameter does not accept types

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu May 9 07:11:55 PDT 2013


On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:45 -0400, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Feels like I am the only one who wants to restrict rules, not relax them  
> =/
>
> But, erm, you don't need alias accepting literals for old syntax!  
> Strings are valid as template value parameters:  
> http://dpaste.1azy.net/54e5d3f2

Hm.. maybe it was a bug that turned into a feature :)  Perhaps I'm not  
remembering correctly why this was introduced.

It is true that you could simply accept a literal with an int/long or  
string, and then you can have different template instantiations based on  
that.

-Steve


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