Re: Template-Meta: Finding out whether a template-definition exists

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
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comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:54:49 GMT
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<tuTCi.7731$ZA.4170@newsb.telia.net>
On 2007-09-03 14:47, Barry wrote:

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"?


If you can't change the code containing the specialisations.

typelist ( a la Alexandrescu ) of the specialized types anche check if
a type is in the typelist...


what will the typelist contains?


Once of each of the specialisations, in other words it should be a list
of all the specialisations.

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