Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
>> This is not a wrapper function, but an alias. You create a new variable
>> 'B_getA1', and make this point to B::getA (the non-const version).
>> This works, since by means of the variable type you disambiguate, so
>> using that in the call to def() works unambiguously.
>
> Sorry, thanks for correcting my terminology. :-)
>
>> You may disambiguate by using a cast inside .def(), such as
>>
>> .def("getA", (A*(B::*)())B::getA);
>>
>> Whether that's actually more readable is arguable, however.
>
> Yeah, that's true, and it will be especially ugly when the method has
> arguments (I guess the cast will then have to include all the argument
> types too...)
>
> Thanks,
>
> J-S
One other difference (which I just found the hard way when updating from
boost-1.39 to boost-1.40):
The cast will stop working if a minor change is made to the function
signature, while the 'alias' will not break so easily.
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