Re: Overloading on concepts

>>From: "Anthony Williams" <anthony_w.geo@...>
>
>> Does the boost concept checking library support overloading on concepts,
> so
>> you can have one implementation of an algorithm for random access
> iterators,
>> and another for bidirectional iterators, for example?
>
> As someone was pointed out in another posting, you can't use BCCL for this,
> since the checks fail with a compile error if a concept doesn't match.
> However, if you're able to define compile-time traits performing the concept
> check, then you _can_ overload on concepts, using enable_if. See the Concept
> Traits Library
> (http://web.archive.org/web/20050428001254/http://neoscientists.org/~tschwin
> ger/boostdev/concept_traits/libs/concept_traits/doc/) for an approach to
> this.