This is probably the way to go, though I really wish the bug that prevents overloading functions against templates would get fixed so it wouldn't mean that the floating point case would have to be templated, too.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrei@erdani.com">andrei@erdani.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/13/2010 04:46 PM, Don Clugston wrote:<br>
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On 13 July 2010 23:25, David Simcha<<a href="mailto:dsimcha@gmail.com" target="_blank">dsimcha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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What's wrong w/ adding sqrt(long) and sqrt(ulong) overloads that just<br>
forward to sqrt(real)?<br>
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Doesn't work -- it's ambiguous for ints.<br>
You need an explicit specialisation for every type: byte, ubyte,<br>
short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong.<br>
Yuck.<br>
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Or templates that dispatch using constraints.<br><font color="#888888">
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Andrei</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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