[Issue 1462] Templated constructor not supported

[Bruno Medeiros]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Bruno Medeiros
> <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
>>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>>> I think it's much more that templated methods cannot be virtual, and
>>>>> constructors more or less have to be.
>>>> How are constructors virtual?
>>> Uhh umm
>>>
>>> Well as it is now, constructors are treated as methods of the class,
>>> so they participate in overloading.  But I think you're right - it
>>> doesn't really seem to have to be that way.
>> That makes no sense :p . Not only are they not virtual, they could never be
>> virtual. Virtual method dispatch is used when you have polymorphism and
>> don't know the exact class of the receiving object. But when constructing
>> you always know the exact class being creating, so you would always know
>> which method/constructor/whatever to dispatch to.
> 
> Then beat Walter over the head!

Apparently my cluebat doesn't reach all the way to Seattle! -_-'

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