Re: function overload resolution by polymorphic types

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:46:10 CST
Message-ID:
<030620080532458265%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article
<e2cb44b9-59ec-43d0-910e-32b8148599cf@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
<"Roman.Perepelitsa@gmail.com"> wrote:

On 30 May, 20:27, "Hicham Mouline" <hic...@mouline.org> wrote:

I mean, if d1 is a type,
d2 is a template, and i know the n actual types generated from d2
(that i would expose to end users)

instead of writing
variant< d1, d2<typearg1>, d2<typearg2>, ..., d2<typeargn>, ... , d3>
i would write that with Prepocessor library somehow.


You can do that, but it will not be much less typing. It will look
like this:

#define MY_VARIANT_TYPES (typearg1)(typearg2)...(typeargn)
variant<d1, MY_TEMPLATE_INSTANCES(d2, MY_VARIANT_TYPES), d3>

Where MY_TEMPLATE_INSTANCES(x, (a)(b)..(z)) expands to
x<a>, x<b>,.., x<z>.

If you gonna use MY_TEMPLATE_INSTANCES macro more than once
then it makes sense to use preprocessor.

then, the static visitor could have a templated operator() member:
struct operation : boost::static_visitor<int> {
    int operator()(const derived1&) const {
      return 1;
    }
   template <typename T>
    int operator()(const derived2<T>&) const {
     // T-dependent code
      return 2;
    }
    int operator()(const derived3&) const {
      return 3;
    }

};

right?


Yes, that's right.

Roman Perepelitsa.

or use mpl to generate a completed typelist

typedef typename boost::make_variant_over
<
   boost::mpl::fold
   <
      boost::mpl::vector
      <
         type1,
         type2,
         type3,
         // ...
         typen
      >,
      d1,
      boost::mpl::push_back<_2,d2<_1> >
   >::type

::type variant_type;


If the list of types is used more than here they can be named
separately.

Beware boost::variant has a max of 20 types without tweaking.
Also the first type in the list [d1 above] must be default
constructable.

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