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edflsafoiewq
5 months ago
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Things Zig comptime won't do
std::enable_if exists to disable certain overloads during overload resolution. Zig has no overloading, so it has no equivalent.
matklad
5 months ago
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I'd flip it over and say that C++ has overloading&SFINAE to enable polymorphism which it otherwise can't express.
edflsafoiewq
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Such as? The basic property of overloading is it's open. Any closed set of overloads can be converted to a single function which does the same dispatch logic with ifs and type traits (it may not be very readable).
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