How does make_pair know the types of its args?

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Published on 2010-04-19T22:59:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 23:03 UTC
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The definition for make_pair in the MSVC++ "utility" header is:

template<class _Ty1,
 class _Ty2> inline
 pair<_Ty1, _Ty2> make_pair(_Ty1 _Val1, _Ty2 _Val2)
 { // return pair composed from arguments
 return (pair<_Ty1, _Ty2>(_Val1, _Val2));
 }

I use make_pair all the time though without putting the argument types in angle brackets:

    map<string,int> theMap ;

    theMap.insert( make_pair( "string", 5 ) ) ;

Shouldn't I have to tell make_pair that the first argument is std::string and not char* ?

How does it know?

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