text: // Copyright (c) 2003 Daniel Wallin and Arvid Norberg
  
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  #ifndef LUABIND_FIND_BEST_MATCH_HPP_INCLUDED
  #define LUABIND_FIND_BEST_MATCH_HPP_INCLUDED
  
  #include <luabind/config.hpp>
  
  #include <boost/limits.hpp>
  
  namespace luabind { namespace detail
  {
  
  	// expects that a match function can be accesed through the iterator
  	// as int match_fun(lua_State*)
  	// returns true if it found a match better than the given. If it finds a
  	// better match match_index is updated to contain the new index to the best
  	// match (this index now refers to the list given to this call).
  	// orep_size is supposed to tell the size of the actual structures that
  	// start and end points to ambiguous is set to true if the match was
  	// ambiguous min_match should be initialized to the currently best match
  	// value (the number of implicit casts to get a perfect match). If there
  	// are no previous matches, set min_match to
  	// std::numeric_limits<int>::max()
  
  	LUABIND_API bool find_best_match(lua_State* L
  		, detail::overload_rep_base const* start, int num_overloads
  		, size_t orep_size, bool& ambiguous, int& min_match, int& match_index
  		, int num_params);
  
  	LUABIND_API void find_exact_match(lua_State* L
  		, detail::overload_rep_base const* start, int num_overloads
  		, size_t orep_size, int cmp_match, int num_params
  		, luabind::vector<overload_rep_base const*>& dest);
  
  }}
  
  #endif // LUABIND_FIND_BEST_MATCH_HPP_INCLUDED
  
  