Should all NEW distribution's tests use the C++11 style test_spots<float>();

[pabristow]

Now that we are requiring C++11, or higher, can we (for all NEW distributions) leave behind the historic (2005-ish) but perhaps puzzling (and perhaps warning triggering) test functions like

template <typename RealType> // Any floating-point type RealType. void test_spots(RealType){...}

called as

test_spots(0.0F); // Test float.

(now that compilers work properly) in favour of

template <typename RealType> // Any floating-point type RealType. void test_spots()

called thus:

test_spots<float>();

(I don't propose changing all the old distributions!)

[jzmaddock]

Yes. It's not even C++11, it's C++03 but back in the day several compilers couldn't cope with it :(