Re: DR 851 - Simplified array construction.

From:
Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarbati@libero.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:25:57 CST
Message-ID:
<HxWBk.156425$FR.442350@twister1.libero.it>
Chris Fairles ha scritto:

The proposed make_array solution requires the type to be specified
explicitly (i.e. make_array<int>(1,2,3,4,5)) whereas every other
make_* doesn't (so far as I recall, correct if I'm wrong).

The following def'n however works w/o requiring the explicit type
param:

template<class T, class... Args>
std::array<T, sizeof...(Args)+1>
make_array(T&& t, Args&&... a)
{
  return std::array<T,sizeof...(Args)
+1>{{std::forward<T>(t),std::forward<Args>(a)...}};
}

int main()
{
  // this works with gcc 4.4.0 mainline (at least with rev. 140533).
  auto a = make_array(1,2,3,4,5);
  auto b = make_array(3.5);
}

This seems a little more useful perhaps. Any reason why it couldn't be
considered as another potential solution to DR 851?


The idea is nice, but it's a bit error prone, for example in this case:

   auto a = make_array(1,2.1,3.2,4.3,5.4);

which silently produces an array of ints and not an array of doubles as
I would expect, simply because I have forgotten the ".0" in the first
argument.

Anyway, the issue is still in review status so there's room for improvement.

Ganesh

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