27 Aug
2012
27 Aug
'12
11:17 a.m.
On 27.08.2012 12:49, pavel wrote:
On 24.08.2012 19:50, pavel wrote: I think this only happens to work by accident, because compilers tend to defer instantiation of function templates until the end of the translation unit, when a proper instantiation of Base is available. But without a compiler that doesn't I don't think I can come up with code that shows this.
Sebastian wrote on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 12:28:16: the thing is in the order of instantiation
so any (modern) standard conforming compiler should do this (feel free to prove me wrong)
You're right, I forgot that f cannot possibly be instantiated before Base. Sebastian