Re: Defining a cast on a templated class

From:
alan <almkglor@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
14 Nov 2007 15:53:28 -0800
Message-ID:
<1195084017.901860.190190@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 15, 5:32 am, Michael DOUBEZ <michael.dou...@free.fr> wrote:

//implement here detail of body composite
namespace imp
{
//interface of cell body
  template<class T>
struct cell_body
{
  virtual ~cell_body(){}
  virtual T get_value()const=0;

};

tyedef boost::shared_ptr<cell_body> cell_body_ptr;

  //counted cell body storing value
  template<class T>
  struct cell_body_value: public cell_body
  {
   cell_body_value(const T& t=T()):t_(t){}
   T get_value()const{return t_;}
   private:
         T t_;
  };

  //cell body of lazy evaluation of binary operator
  template<class T,class BinaryOperator>
  struct cell_body_op: public cell_body
  {
   cell_body_op( cell_body_ptr lhs,
                 cell_body_ptr rhs,
                const BinaryOperator& op=BinaryOperator()):
        lhs_(lhs),
        rhs_(rhs),
        op_(op){}
   virtual T get_value(){return op(lhs->get_value(),rhs->get_value();}
   private:
         cell_body_ptr lhs_;
         cell_body_ptr rhs_;
         BinaryOperator op_;
  };

  //do the same for unary operator, ...

};

template<class T>
class cell
{
     public:
         //ensure get_value() always work
         cell<T>(const T& t=T())
         {
             value_=new imp::cell_body_value(t);
         }

         //make a const version to use when rhs is local
         cell<T>& operator+=(const cell<T>& c)
         {
             value_=new imp::cell_body_op(value_,c.value_,std::plus());
         }

         inline T get_value()const{ return value_->get_value();}

   private:
         imp::cell_body_ptr value_;

};

The code is not tested but should be close.


It didn't compile but I tried hacking through it to make it compile.
I've managed to make it compile but now it won't run ^^;

Here's what I hacked up:
//I removed the namespace imp thing for now, since
//I was getting rather confused at some point
//implement here detail of body composite
//interface of cell body
template<class T>
class cell_body
{
public:
  virtual ~cell_body(){}
  virtual T get_value()const{return T();};
};

//The compiler rejected the typedef (because the
//cell_body didn't have a template instantiation)
//so I removed it and instantiated the typedef in
//the classes.

  //counted cell body storing value
  template<class T>
  class cell_body_value: public cell_body<T>
  {
  public:
   cell_body_value(const T& t=T()):t_(t){}
   T get_value()const{return t_;}
   private:
         T t_;
  };

  //cell body of lazy evaluation of binary operator
  template<class T,class BinaryOperator>
  class cell_body_op: public cell_body<T> //Added the <T>
  {
  typedef boost::shared_ptr<cell_body<T> > cell_body_ptr; //Added the
<T>
  public:
   cell_body_op( cell_body_ptr lhs,
                 cell_body_ptr rhs,
                const BinaryOperator& op=BinaryOperator()):
        lhs_(lhs),
        rhs_(rhs),
        op_(op){}
   //minor typos (missing const and _)
   virtual T get_value() const {return op_(lhs_->get_value(),rhs_-

get_value());}

   private:
         cell_body_ptr lhs_;
         cell_body_ptr rhs_;
         BinaryOperator op_;
  };

template<class T>
class cell
{
  //instantiated the typedef again.
  typedef boost::shared_ptr<cell_body<T> > cell_body_ptr;
     public:
         //ensure get_value() always work
         cell<T>(const T& t=T())
         {
             //The compiler rejected the direct assignment to value_
             //so I did this.
             cell_body_ptr tmp(new cell_body_value<T>(t)); //Added the
<T>
             value_=tmp;
         }

         //make a const version to use when rhs is local
         //I think this is the function that crashes
         cell<T>& operator+=(const cell<T>& c)
         {
             //The compiler rejected the direct assignment to value_
             cell_body_ptr tmp(new cell_body_op<T, std::plus<T>

(value_, c.value_, std::plus<T>()));

             value_=tmp;
         }

         inline T get_value()const{ return value_->get_value();}

   private:
         cell_body_ptr value_;

};

I retained the old operator+ definitions.
This works:
cell<int> v;
v = 1;
cout << v.get_value();
This crashes:
cell<int> v, v2;
v = v2 + 1;
cout << v.get_value();

This leads me to suspect that I did something very wrong in the +=
code, possibly in using std::plus<T> in the template instantiation

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