Re: Swappable concepts and ADL (was Re: Return versus Side-Effect)

From:
Yechezkel Mett <ymett.on.usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:13:18 CST
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On Apr 2, 2:09 pm, Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarb...@libero.it>
wrote:

Yechezkel Mett ha scritto:

Perhaps the following would be better (assuming it works!)

namespace std
{
    auto concept Swappable<typename T> {
      void swap(T&, T&)
      {
        T x(std::move(a));
        a = std::move(b);
        b = std::move(x);
      }
    };

    auto concept MemberSwappable<typename T> : Swappable<T> {
      void T::swap(T&);
      void swap(T& lhs, T& rhs) { lhs.swap(rhs); }
    };

    template <Swappable T>
    void swap(T&& a, T&& b)
    {
      Swappable<T>::swap(a, b);
    }
}


I see... very nice. I'm starting to like concepts ;) and possibly I'm
also starting to learn how to use them effectively, thanks!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in this case swappability would be
achieved by:

1) by providing a explicit concept map for Swappable<T>
2) by T having a member function swap()
3) by having a free function swap in a namespace associated with T
4) by T being MoveConstructible and MoveAssignable


That was the idea, but after working my way through bits of N2501 I
don't think it'll work. Worse yet, sometimes it will and sometimes it
won't depending on instantiation order. If I've understood it
correctly :-) and depending on the precise meaning of the word "need".

I think the following should do the trick:

namespace std
{
    auto concept Swappable<typename T> {
      void swap(T& lhs, T& rhs)
      {
        T x(std::move(lhs));
        lhs = std::move(rhs);
        rhs = std::move(x);
      }
    };

    auto concept MemberSwappable<typename T> {
      void T::swap(T&);
    };

    template<MemberSwappable T>
    concept_map Swappable<T> {
      swap(T& lhs, T& rhs)
      {
        lhs.swap(rhs);
      }
    };

    template <Swappable T>
    void swap(T&& a, T&& b)
    {
      Swappable<T>::swap(a, b);
    }
}

Yechezkel Mett

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