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Document number: N3617

Date: 2013-03-14

Lifting Overload Sets into Function Objects

by Philipp Juschka

Excerpt:

Many generic libraries, including the standard library, draw from the functional programming paradigm, where passing around functions is a common occurence. This proposal aims to allow the usage of functional techniques with plain old overloaded functions and function templates without needing to create a function object by hand.