Re: Help with Template-Template and Mixin Polymorphism

From:
Greg Herlihy <greghe@pacbell.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:12:27 CST
Message-ID:
<C2E0A22D.2D21%greghe@pacbell.net>
On 8/9/07 10:37 AM, in article
1186671429.567087.217270@l70g2000hse.googlegroups.com, "TimeHorse"
<darklord@timehorse.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to create a mixin class heirarchy as follows:

template <class E, class Y>
struct Z { };

template <template <class, class> class X, class Y>
struct A
{
typedef typename X G; // Problem
typedef typename X<A *, Y> F;
A(void) { }
virtual ~A(void) { }
};

template <class Y>
struct B : public virtual A<Z, Y>
{
B(void) { }
virtual ~B(void) { }
};

template <class Y, template <class> class P = B>
struct C :
    public virtual A<P<Y>::G, Y>, // Problem
    private P<Y>
{
C(void) { }
virtual ~C(void) { }
};

int main(/* int argc, char ** argv */void)
{
C<int> c;
return 0;
}


Personally, I would consider ways of simplifying this set of templates. And
if I understood them, I would offer some suggestions. But at least I was
able to find a solution to your problem (I think):

    template <class E, class Y>
    struct Z {};

    template <template <class, class> class X, class Y>
    struct A
    {
        A() {}
        virtual ~A() {}
        
        typedef X<A *, Y> F;
    };

    template <class Y>
    struct B : public virtual A<Z,Y>
    {
        B() {}
        virtual ~B() {}
        
        typedef A<Z,Y> base_class;
    };

    // have C inherit from the same class that P<Y> does

    template <class Y, template <class> class P = B>
    struct C : public virtual P<Y>::base_class,
               private P<Y>
    {
        C() {}
        virtual ~C() {}
    };

    int main()
    {
        C<int> c;
    }

Greg
 

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