Re: How to write an is_nothrow_swapable<T>?

From:
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:22:31 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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on Fri Nov 16 2012, Zhihao Yuan <lichray-AT-googlemail.com> wrote:

Non-throw swapable is quite useful, and it can be more useful if the
concept can be tested. If we already have an object of type T, I
think the following one is enough:

template <typename T>
constexpr bool is_nothrow_swapable(T& t) {
    using std::swap;
    return noexcept(swap(t, t)) or
        (std::is_nothrow_move_constructible<T>::value and
         std::is_nothrow_move_assignable<T>::value);
}


That's the wrong test, because the swap operation doesn't use move
construction plus move assignment unless it happens to select std::swap
as the overload. In other words, just return

  noexcept(swap(t,t))

However, I want it to be able to work on just a type, to work as an
integral_constant. Is that doable? Comments on how to implement an
is_swapable<T> are also welcome. Thanks.


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#include <utility>

namespace is_nothrow_swappable_impl
{
   using std::swap;
   template <class T>
   struct test
   {
       static bool const value
       = noexcept(swap(std::declval<T&>(),std::declval<T&>()));
   };
}

template <class T>
struct is_nothrow_swappable // <= note extra "p"
   : std::integral_constant<bool, is_nothrow_swappable_impl::test<T>::value>
{};

struct Q {};

struct R { R(R const&); };

int test1[is_nothrow_swappable<int>::value ? 1 : -1];
int test2[is_nothrow_swappable<Q>::value ? 1 : -1];
int test3[is_nothrow_swappable<R>::value ? -1 : 1];

int main() {}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH,

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