SubstitutionFailureIsNotAnError

Substitution-Failure-Is-Not-An-Error (SFINAE) is decribed in CppTemplatesTheCompleteGuide p.106 and also in CppCommonKnowledge Item 59 p.217.

This [...] principle is clearly an important ingredient to make the overloading of function templates practical.

There is also a page on this on WikiPedia:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_failure_is_not_an_error

One of the CeePlusPlusIdioms

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