Joe Gottman wrote:
This looks very nice. I hope the standards committee accepts it. I do have one question: is it possible to define a variadic function such that all the variadic parameters are of the same type? This would be useful, for instance, to define a max() function that can finds the max value of any number of parameters:
long x1, x2, x3, x4, x5; // Some code const long &max_x = max(x1, x2, x3, x4, x5);
If this is possible, would it be possible to define a variadic function without making it a template function?
FWIW, you can do that today by providing an overload of std::mac_element: template< class Rng > range_iterator<Rng>::const_iterator max_element( const Rng& r ) { return std::max_element( boost::begin(r), boost::end(r) ); } const long& max = *max_element( boost::assign::ref_list_of(x1)(x2)(x3)(x4) ); -Thorsten