Re: [Libreoffice-commits] Revert "sorted_vector: turn Find parameter into template"

On 02/08/12 08:17, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 03:01 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > commit 8291d41667b1a63d35bf818aaf9d75529e1f12f0
> > Author: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
> > Date:   Wed Aug 1 14:41:43 2012 +0200
> >
> >      Revert "sorted_vector: turn Find parameter into template"
> >
> >      This reverts commit 3e3acee762fac71f7356ed1305a64e0278278081.
> >
> >      It was a nice idea, but C++ is not yet ready for it; with the travesty
> >      of parametric polymorphism in C++ the find_unique inside the definition
> >      of find_unique actually refers to find_unique<Value, Compare>, so there
> >      is no way to actually refer to template<Value, Compare> find_unique
> >      inside its definition.  Thanks to Luboš Luňák for explaining
> >      the problem to me.  Somehow this does work in GCC 4.7 even with
> >      -std=c++98, likely by accident.
>
> The way to refer to the find_unique template from within the class 
> definition itself is with o3tl::find_unique.  So much for "language design."

thanks, that does indeed seem to work even with MSVC2008.
have un-reverted this now...