On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 23:11, John Spicer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don’t recall if a feature test macro was discussed for this.
>
> At the time, I think I would have thought one was not needed, but that could 
> be wrong.
>
> There is a workaround of sorts.  If you add any function template with the 
> same name and that will be found by normal lookup, then ADL will be done for 
> the function template call with the explicit argument list.
>
> namespace N {
> struct A { };
> template <typename T>
> T func(const A&) { return T(); }
> }
> template <class T, int x[-sizeof(T)]> void func();  // something uncallable
>
> void f() {
> N::A a;
> func<int>(a);
> }

Impressive. :)

> Which is not to say that we shouldn’t add a macro for this.

Not indeed; I would hesitate to recommend such techniques, although
for desperate users, maybe.
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