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

[Michael Stahl]

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 at 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...