From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T10:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for [...] programmers

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On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> And I know C++ reasonably well and have been trying to exercise C++ to
> what *should* work:
>
>   struct ToString
>   {
>       ToString()
>       {
>       }
>
>       template <class T>
>       std::string operator()(const T::values& v)
>       {
>         return T::to_str(v);
>       }
>   };
>
> So far as I can tell, it doesn't work. Without something like that
> (where, ideally, T could *either* be a real class and we're talking
> about typedefs and static member functions inside the class or a
> namespace), C++ can't claim that it does "duck typing", even at
> compile time.
>
> -austin

What compiler are you using? I'm pretty sure I've gotten g++ to do  
acrobatics like this in the past. 
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