Ambiguous template parameter names

[Meta]

On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 02:48:10 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 00:52:58 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> It's not a big per se. It's a consequence of the declaration 
>> expanding to the real template function form (I can't type it 
>> all out as I'm on my phone), thus the inner `val` from the 
>> function shadows the one from the template.
>
>
> That makes sense. Before creating the example, I would have 
> assumed that when you instantiate it as foo!1, then the `val=1` 
> would flow through to the inner foo function.
>
> template foo(int val)
> {
>     int foo(int val)
>     {
>         return val;
>     }
> }

If you want that, you might be able to do `int val = val` on the 
inner function, though I'm not sure that'll work.