Re: [boost] C++17 and "Alice in Wonderland"

Am 23.03.2021 um 21:13 schrieb Edward Diener via Boost:

I apologize for this non-Boost related post, but I ran into what I thought was a C++17 bug in clang ( also in vc++14.2 C++17 )...

In a template of form template whatever up until C++14, the function argument type in the non-type template parameter was never looked at in the deduction of type T because NTTPs weren't deemed dependent on placeholder types in their function arguments. Beginning with C++17, they are. Therefore you may get conflicting type deduction because the second, additional deduction path from the function argument type in the NTTP will never deduce a top-level cv-qualified T in case of non-reference-like arguments. But the first, formerly only deduction path, may. And therein lies the conflict in your example where T = const char in the first path and T = char is in the second. Well, at least this is my understanding of P0172. Ciao   Dani -- PGP/GPG: 2CCB 3ECB 0954 5CD3 B0DB 6AA0 BA03 56A1 2C4638C5