Re: determine if a type is a free function pointer
Fei Liu wrote:
I am trying to experiment with typetraits such that I can determine if a
type is a free function pointer type. The following code example works
but it's not generic. As you can see, I have to enumerate the function
signatures. Is there a generic solution? (... doesn't work btw).
Fei
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
template <typename T>
class typetraits{
template <typename U>
struct is_free_func_ptr {
enum { result = false };
};
template <typename U>
struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)()>{
enum { result = true };
};
template <typename U, typename V>
struct is_free_func_ptr<U (*)(V)>{
enum { result = true };
};
public:
enum { result = is_free_func_ptr<T>::result };
};
void foo() { }
void foo(int) { }
struct f{
void operator ()() const {}
};
int main(){
typedef void (*foo_fp)();
typedef int (*foo_fp2)(int);
cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp>::result << endl;
cout << "result: " << typetraits<foo_fp2>::result << endl;
cout << "result: " << typetraits<void *>::result << endl;
cout << "result: " << typetraits<void>::result << endl;
cout << "result: " << typetraits<f>::result << endl;
}
Well
tr1 has is_function, I didn't carefully checked out how Boost.TypeTraits
implements it,
But I think life can be much easier if we have variadic template
parameter language support
--
Thanks
Barry
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