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Re:“Modern” C++ Lamentations by fanf2 on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:52PM (#18780140)
Sadly C’s `_Generic` typecase mechanism does not do SFINAE: all the branches have to typecheck OK, regardless of which one is selected. This is OK for <tgmath.h> where the cases are different sizes of float, where there are few opportunities to get different failures in the different cases, but it makes _Generic hard to use for more template-like code.
Re:“Modern” C++ Lamentations by pjmlp on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:34PM (#18780371)
Given how hard SFINAE is to understand for typical developers, I consider it a good thing, actually.