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Fix operator warning #1420

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Describe your changes here:
Fixes an ambiguity warning which prevents me from compiling this.

ISO C++20 considers use of overloaded operator '==' (with operand types 'const DummyInt' (aka 'const T8Type<int, dummy_int, Addable, Subtractable, AddAssignable, Multipliable, Dividable, PrefixDecrementable, PrefixIncrementable, EqualityComparable, Printable>') and 'const DummyInt') to be ambiguous despite there being a unique best viable function

Stackoverflow explanation:

The specific issue is that in C++20, comparison operators add a new notion of rewritten and reversed candidates. So lookup for the expression a == b will also end up matching operators like b == a. In the typical case, this means you have to write fewer operators, since we know equality is commutative.

But if you have a const-mismatch, what happens is you end up with these two candidates:

bool operator==(/* this*/ A&, A const&); // member function
bool operator==(A const&, /* this*/ A&); // reversed member function

With two arguments of type A. The first candidate is better in the first argument, and the second candidate is better in the second argument. Neither candidate is better than the other, hence ambiguous.

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@sandro-elsweijer sandro-elsweijer added critical Should be handled ASAP priority: high Should be solved as soon as possible workload: low Would take half a day or less labels Feb 20, 2025
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Something went wrong in the commit history. Will be pursued in #1424

@sandro-elsweijer sandro-elsweijer deleted the fix-operator_warning branch February 20, 2025 13:03
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