From -7337863421413141598 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,c9a289c55d59e43d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: gdr@cs.tamu.edu (Gabriel Dos Reis) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: non-type template parameter in the new std. Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:24:46 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Lines: 26 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <1152726032.559269.324790@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1153303711.059075.10180@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1153340699 7533 158.152.254.254 (19 Jul 2006 20:24:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:24:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k6JKOkuN004855; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:24:46 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jul 2006 19:28:10 GMT X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2902 On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, kanze wrote: | I'm also not convinced that it is a real problem. After all, we | alread ylive with the fact that it is unspecified whether: | void func( unsigned ) ; | void func( size_t ) ; | declares two functions or one; I don't see where such | ambiguities due to the instantiation of a template on a floating | point value makes the problem significantly worse. I'm trying to refrain from using the syllogism that some problems are already existent with "unspecified beahviour", therefore we should be able to live with another one. -- Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@cs.tamu.edu Texas A&M University -- Department of Computer Science 301, Bright Building -- College Station, TX 77843-3112 --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]