C++ template function explicit specialization with multiple template types

Question

I'd like to write a templatized function with two template types: one a bool and one a typename, and I'd like to specialize on the typename.

eg, this is what I want, but specialized on just a couple types for T:

template<bool b, typename T>
void foo(T val)
{
   // do different stuff based on b and type of T.
}

without the bool in there, I can do something like this:

template<typename T>
void bar(T val) {
    static_assert(false, "not implemented");
}

template<>
void bar<short>(short val) {
    printf("it's a short!\n");
}

I can't figure out the syntax for this, and the microsoft docs on specialization only cover the single-type case.

Answer 1

template<bool B, typename T>
void foo(T const&)
{
    static_assert(false, "not implemented");
}

template<bool B>
void foo(short)
{
    printf("it's a short!\n");
}

However, this is not really specialisation, but overloading, which is completely appropriate. In fact, you could omit the general case.