Re: determine if a type is a free function pointer

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:01:33 +0800
Message-ID:
<fca96d$9ms$1@aioe.org>
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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