Templated usings Can't Select Template Functions to use as Parameters in Visual Studio

Question

This is about as simplified as I could make a toy example that still hit the bug:

struct Vector3f64 {
  double x;
  double y;
  double z;
};

struct Vector3f32 {         


        

Answer 1

You're really only interested in the function::result_type so there's really no need to go through the bugged path of returning a function. Just return the result type and do a decltype on that (you don't even need to define the function since you're not actually calling it.) Something like this:

template 
R make_func(R(*)(ARGS...));

Then just directly use the return type:

template 
decltype(make_func(&VectorVolume>)) func(const T& dir) {
    return VectorVolume(dir.x, dir.y, dir.z);
}

This is works great on Visual Studio 15.6.7 and as an added bonus is fully c++14 compatible: https://ideone.com/gcYo8x