Differences between template specialization and overloading for functions?

Question

So, I know that there is a difference between these two tidbits of code:

template 
T inc(const T& t)
{
    return t + 1;
}

template &l         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK there is no functional difference. All I can add is that if you have both a template function specialisation and an ordinary function defined then there is no overload ambiguity as the ordinary function is favoured.