Implementing variadic min / max functions

Question

I\'m implementing variadic min/max functions. A goal is to take advantage of the compile time known number of arguments and perform an unrolled evaluation (

Answer 1

You cannot bind a temporary to a non-const reference, that is why you probably get the compilation error. That is, in vmin(3, 2, 1, 2, 5), the parameters are temporaries. It will work if you declare them as for example int first=3,second=2 and so on, then invoke vmin(first,second...)