• Kagamin <spam here.lot> Jun 17 2011
• David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> Jun 17 2011

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Daniel Gibson Wrote:

 This would be inconsistent with all other to implementations, as far as
 I know.


Inconsistency is the very reason for template specialization to exist.

David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> writes:

On 6/17/11 3:24 PM, Kagamin wrote:
 Daniel Gibson Wrote:

 This would be inconsistent with all other to implementations, as far as
 I know.


 Inconsistency is the very reason for template specialization to exist.


No, it would be inconsistent from a user's point of view, since for all 
other types, to!Foo(xyz) returns a Foo, and not something else.

David