I was trying to write a PRNG, and I wanted to give it two seed
methods. The first is to seed from a unique UIntType, and the
other is to seed from an entire range of seeds. Like so:
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void seed(UIntType value = default_seed)
{...}
void seed(Range)(Range range)
if (isInputRange!Range)
{...}
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Where UIntType is a template parameter of the struct.
However, this makes the compiler complain, because of a
conflict...? Is mixing normal functions with parametrized ones
impossible?
I *fixed* the issue by contemplating the first call with:
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void seed(T)(T value = default_seed)
if (is(typeof(T == UIntType)))
{...}
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Problems:
1) It is ugly as sin.
2) The default parameter doesn't work anymore.
So here are my two questions:
1) Is what I was originally trying to do actually illegal, or is
it some sort of compiler limitation? TDPL implies this should
work perfectly fine...
2) Is there a "correct" workaround?
