Re: Simple specialization problem

From:
Alan Johnson <awjcs@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:59:50 -0800
Message-ID:
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mathieu wrote:

Hello,

  I am trying to express a very simple piece of code. I have:

#include <iostream>

enum A { a1, a2, a3, a4 };
enum B { b1, b2, b3, b4 };

template <int TA, int TB> struct Foo {
  void foo() { std::cout << "general\n"; }
};

Now I want to say : only allow TB=b1 when TA=a1:

template<> struct Foo<a1,b1> {
  void foo() { std::cout << "duplicated\n"; }
};
// mark everything else illegal:
template<int TB> struct Foo<a1, TB>;

This is working for me. The problem is that I need to duplicate the
code for Foo<a1,b1> when I simply want to use the general
implementation. Is there a way to say:

template <> struct Foo <a1,b1> : public Foo<a1,b1> ?

Or is there another way to achieve a compilation error for Foo <a1, `b!
=b1`>

Thanks
-Mathieu


You could use boost's metaprogramming library. Something like:

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/static_assert.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/int.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/equal_to.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/not_equal_to.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/comparison.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/or.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/logical.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/assert.hpp>

enum A { a1, a2, a3, a4 };
enum B { b1, b2, b3, b4 };

using namespace boost::mpl ;

template <int TA, int TB> struct Foo {

   BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( or_< not_equal_to< int_<TA>, int_<a1> > ,
     equal_to< int_<TB>, int_<b1> > > )) ;
   void foo() { std::cout << "general\n"; }
};

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