Re: Heterogeneous collection: return type overload
On Feb 18, 9:04 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 18, 6:50 am, jrbcast <jrbc...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 17, 7:59 pm, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
"jrbcast" <jrbc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Imagine I have something like this:
class Collection
{
std::map<char *, void *> elements;
Using a char* as a key in a map is probably not a very good
idea.
Yes, I realized about that after posting ;-), I am now using
std::string
Collection();
Try "std::map<std::string, boost::any> elements;" instead.
Thanks for your responses. Now it is clear that C++ does not
support function overloading on return types :-(.
Not directly, but it's fairly simple to get the same effect by
means of a proxy:
class Collection
{
public:
class Proxy
{
Collection const* owner;
std::string key;
public:
Proxy(Collection const& owner, std::string const&=
key)
: owner(&owner)
, key(key)
{
}
template< typename T > operator T() const
{
return owner->... // whatever it ta=
kes to get
//=
the correctly typed value
}
}
Proxy get(std::string const& key) const
{
return Proxy(*this, key);
}
// ...
};
I am afraid I am not able to follow the code (too hard for me and my
usual needs). Can you point me to some book/web... where to learn such
special things?
Cheers
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