Re: Static polymorphism and the LSP principle
Amanjit Gill ha scritto:
I am trying to do Static polymorphism with templates while mainting
the OOP philosophy (for those cases where a virtual method dispatch is
too expensive).
template<class DERIVED_>
struct IAlgorithm {
void calc() {
static_cast<DERIVED_*>(this)->calc();
};
};
struct SimpleAlg : public IAlgorithm<SimpleAlg> {
void calc() {
}
};
struct ComplexAlg : public IAlgorithm<ComplexAlg> {
void calc() {
};
};
I would like to store f.e. an vector<boost::any> list of instances of
classes that conform to the IAlgorithm interface- i.e. that contain
both SimpleAlgs and ComplexAlg - and the list should be completely
run-time alterable with regard to the order of items. Of course I
want clients only to use the IAlgorithm<> interface contract (LSP
principle).
As you have only two types (SimpleAlg and ComplexAlg) I would consider
using boost::variant<SimpleAlg, ComplexAlg> instead of boost::any. If I
understand what you are trying to do, you could achieve that easily by
provide a suitable static visitor.
Ganesh
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