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2024-12-19

2789. Overload resolution with implicit and explicit object member functions

[Accepted as a DR at the November, 2023 meeting.]

Consider:

  template <typename T = int>
  struct S {
    constexpr void f();                      // #1
    constexpr void f(this S&) requires true; // #2
  };

  void test() {
    S<> s;
    s.f();                 // #3
  }

With the current rules, the call at #3 is ambiguous, even though #2 is more constrainted.

Proposed resolution (approved by CWG 2023-11-07):

Change in 12.2.4.1 [over.match.best.general] bullet 2.6 as follows:

• ...
• F1 and F2 are non-template functions with and
  • they have the same parameter-type-lists non-object-parameter-type-lists (9.3.4.6 [dcl.fct]), and
  • if they are member functions, both are direct members of the same class, and
  • if both are non-static member functions, they have the same types for their object parameters, and
  • F1 is more constrained than F2 according to the partial ordering of constraints described in 13.5.5 [temp.constr.order],
  or if not that,

  [ Example:

    template <typename T = int>
    struct S {
      constexpr void f();                      // #1
      constexpr void f(this S&) requires true; // #2
    };
  
    void test() {
      S<> s;
      s.f();                 // calls #2
    }
  

  -- end example ]

• ...