Niall Douglas wrote:
And finally, std::variant doesn't implement multiple argument converting
constructors. And I figured WG21 know what they're doing.
Some design features translate between similar but different classes, and
some do not. variant has no idea what the alternatives are or what
they represent, which is reflected in the way it treats them. So you use
in_place_index<3> for the fourth alternative, for example.
In our case, there are only two alternatives and they have known semantics.
This both allows us to use named tags instead of generic type/index based
ones, and it also makes it possible for a human to perform overload
resolution in his mind (due to there being only two options) when faced with
{ x, y, z }.
Also variadic templates are slow :(
If that's the problem, you could use
template
result( A1&& a1, A2&& a2, A&&... a );
which would be rejected immediately in the one-arg case and hence shouldn't
affect its compile times. I SFINAE on sizeof...(A) >= 2 instead, but I might
switch.
