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Document number: N3595

Date: 2013-03-15

Simplifying Argument-Dependent Lookup Rules

by Peter Gottschling

Excerpt:

ADL rules as defined today are not always intuitive to me -- and I dare to postulate: for Joe Coder neither. Especially, when unintended overloads for common function names (e.g. "size") are accidentally found, they can hide the intended overload and require the programmer to write much more code to get the right overload called. I speak from experience. David Abrahams is fighting since a long time that programmers have more control over ADL: [Abr04, Abr12] and many other documents. Other modications were proposed by Herb Sutter [Sut06].