Variadic functions (without arguments!)

Question

Let's assume you want to do this in C++0x:

size_t count_int() { return 0; }
template<typename T, typename... Tn>
size_t count_int(T a0, Tn... an) {
    size_t n = is_integer<T>::value ? 1 : 0;
    return n + count_int(an...);
}

Nice, but it feels unnecessary to pass around the arguments. Unfortunately, this does not work:

size_t count_int() { return 0; }
template<typename T, typename... Tn>
size_t count_int() {
    size_t n = is_integer<T>::value ? 1 : 0;
    return n + count_int<Tn...>();
}

GCC complains error: no matching function for call to 'count_int()' in the next-to-last line. Why and how can this be fixed? Thanks.

Answer 1

This works:

template <typename T>
size_t count_int()
{
   return is_integer<T>::value ? 1 : 0;
}

template<typename T, typename T1, typename... Tn>
size_t count_int() {
    size_t n = is_integer<T>::value ? 1 : 0;
    return n + count_int<T1,Tn...>();
};