dblaikie added a comment.

In D67647#1713974 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D67647#1713974>, @comex wrote:

> So, I landed this patch but had to revert it as it broke the build on MSVC 
> (and only MSVC).  That was almost a month ago, but I haven't gotten back 
> around to this until now – sorry :|
>
> In this updated patch, I switched is_random_iterator from a constexpr 
> function:
>
>   template <typename T>
>   constexpr bool is_random_iterator() {
>     return std::is_same<
>       typename std::iterator_traits<T>::iterator_category,
>       std::random_access_iterator_tag>::value;
>   }
>
>
> to a type alias:
>
>   template <typename T>
>   using is_random_iterator =
>     std::is_same<typename std::iterator_traits<T>::iterator_category,
>                  std::random_access_iterator_tag>;
>
>
> and changed the uses accordingly.  For some reason, MSVC thought the two 
> overloads of `drop_begin`, one with `enable_if<!is_random_iterator<T>()>` and 
> one with `enable_if<is_random_iterator<T>()>`, were duplicate definitions.  
> But with `is_random_iterator` changed to a type alias, MSVC is fine with 
> them.  GCC and Clang think both versions are valid, so I think it's just an 
> MSVC bug.
>
> Simplified example for reference: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/niXCy4


Sounds good to me. Maybe leave a comment explaining why a constexpr function 
was not used?


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