"Judd Tracy" <jtracy@ist.ucf.edu> writes:

I am trying to use boost:add_reference in a template function to protect against the reference of reference problems, but it is breaking type deduction and I was wondering if any one know of a solution to this.

template<typename Type> read(std::istream& stream, Type& data);

This works properly of course.

And it's already protected. If you are passing a reference type U& as the 2nd argument, Type will always be deduced as U. You don't need add_reference here.

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template<typename Type> read (std::istream& stream, typename boost::add_reference<Type>::type data);

This one does not work properly and I have to explicitly specify the type.

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