Re: templated constanst

From:
"Javier Loureiro" <derethorspam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
14 Jun 2006 06:27:00 -0400
Message-ID:
<1150111273.010320.92000@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
I just read the "limits" header (included with visual 2003), and it
uses the macro :

 #define _STCONS(ty, name, val) static const ty name = (ty)(val)

to declare numeric_limits member variables like has_infinity,
is_integer, etc, inside a struct declaration...

I wrote this simple code using such macro and the limits class
inheritance, and it does not compile...

#define MY_STCONS(ty, name, val) static const ty name = (ty)(val)

namespace mystd {

struct num_base
{
        MY_STCONS(bool, is_bounded, false);
        MY_STCONS(bool, is_exact, false);
};

template <class T>
struct num_procs : public num_base
{
   inline static foo() { return T(0); }
};

struct num_int_base : public num_base
{
        MY_STCONS(bool, is_bounded, false);
        MY_STCONS(bool, is_exact, false);
};

template <> struct num_procs<int> : public num_int_base
{
   typedef int T;
   inline static foo() { return T(20); }
};

Carl Barron ha escrito:

In article <1149872688.630467.262110@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Javier Loureiro <derethorspam@gmail.com> wrote:

how can I write this template without a static member?

-- header --

template <typename Scalar>
struct A
{
static Scalar MAX_VALUE;
};

-- explict instance --

A<float>::MAX_VALUE = FLT_MAX;
A<double>::MAX_VALUE = DBL_MAX;

using it like:

double v = Math<double>::MAX_VALUE;

It?s the only static dependency for my algebra template class...


  static member functions ok?? they can be written and not require
separate initialization.

  why not use std::numeric_limits<type> or its approach to provide
functions to provide the results as they are not compile time constants

template <class T> class A;

template <> class A<float> {static float max() {return FLT_MAX;}};
template <> class A<double> {static double max() const {return
DBL_MAX;}};
//etc.
// usage: double v = A<double>::max();


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