Re: Template-Meta: Finding out whether a template-definition exists
xtrigger303@gmail.com wrote:
On Sep 3, 2:13 pm, "Hendrik Schober" <SpamT...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
suppose we have
template< typename T >
struct X;
and some specializations:
template<>
struct X<A> {};
template<>
struct X<B> {};
template<>
struct X<B> {};
Given a type 'U', is there a way to find out whether the
definition 'X<U>' exists? (The result should be a compile-
time constant, so that it can be used for specializing
other templates.)
Schobi
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IMHO
template< typename T >
struct X
{
enum { kIsSpecialized = false };
};
template<>
struct X< A >
{
enum { kIsSpecialized = true };
};
if you cannot touch the structs you might keep a manually updated
what do you mean by "you cannot touch the structs"?
typelist ( a la Alexandrescu ) of the specialized types anche check if
a type is in the typelist...
what will the typelist contains?
I can't think of any other way ( so probably there are a thousands
more ... )
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