Re: [Boost-users] boost::function unusable as overloadable function argument

Peter Soetens wrote:

void foo1(int i, std::string a); void foo1(int i, boost::function foo );

int main(int argc, char** argv) { //boost::function foo = "hello"; // this line won't compile

foo1( 3, "hello" ); //error: call of overloaded ‘foo1(int, const char [6])’ is ambiguous

return 0; }

When I've encountered that, I've sometimes defined an additional overload: void fool(int i, const char* a) { fool(i, std::string(a)); }