In Visual Studio 2008, the compiler cannot resolve the call to SetCustomer in _tmain below and make it unambiguous:
template <typename TConsumer>
struct Producer
{
void SetConsumer(TConsumer* consumer) { consumer_ = consumer; }
TConsumer* consumer_;
};
struct AppleConsumer
{
};
struct MeatConsumer
{
};
struct ShillyShallyProducer : public Producer<AppleConsumer>,
public Producer<MeatConsumer>
{
};
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
ShillyShallyProducer producer;
AppleConsumer consumer;
producer.SetConsumer(&consumer); // <---
Ambiguous call!!
return 0;
}
This is the compilation error:
// error C2385:
ambiguous access of 'SetConsumer'
// could be the 'SetConsumer' in base 'Producer<AppleConsumer>'
// or could be the 'SetConsumer' in base 'Producer<MeatConsumer>'
I thought the template argument lookup mechanism would be smart enough to deduce the correct base Producer. Why isn't it?
I could get around this by changing Producer to
template <typename TConsumer>
struct Producer
{
template <typename TConsumer2>
void SetConsumer(TConsumer2* consumer) { consumer_ = consumer; }
TConsumer* consumer_;
};
and call SetConsumer as
producer.SetConsumer<AppleConsumer>(&consumer); // Unambiguous call!!
but it would be nicer if I didn't have to...
