Mersenne Twister Seeding and UUIDs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:48:11 Jens Mueller wrote:
> Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > * As seed is a normal function right now, I can't overload it with a
> > 
> >   template. Is it safe to make the original seed a template as well, so
> >   seedRange could be named seed, or would that break the API?
> 
> What do you mean by you can't overload it? Does it not compile? I think
> it should.

You can't currently overload templated functions with non-templated functions 
or vice versa:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1528

The solution is to just give the non-templated functions an empty template 
parameter list. It shouldn't break any code. Worst case, you might have to add 
constraints to the fully templated version to make it so that it doesn't match 
any of the arguments that the formerly non-templated function accepts.

- Jonathan M Davis