Re: type function U[1] and U(*)[1] SFINAE issue

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 25 May 2008 07:44:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<4aadf656-8acc-4c14-8001-801eafcb947b@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
On May 24, 10:28 pm, courp...@gmail.com wrote:

On 24 mai, 04:16, Barry <dhb2...@gmail.com> wrote:

a clean implementation of is_function from this NG a while ago:

by means of "function to pointer-to-function conversion"

typedef char (&yes) [1];
typedef char (&no) [2];

// is_class_type
template <typename T>
class is_class_type
{
    template <typename S>
    static yes check(int S::*);

    template <typename S>
    static no check(...);

public:
    static bool const value = (sizeof(check<T>(0)) == sizeof(y=

es));

};

template <typename T>
class is_function
{
    template <typename S>
    static yes check(S*);

    template <typename S>
    static no check(...);

public:
    static bool const value =
        (!is_class_type<T>::value)
        &&
        (sizeof(check<T>(*(T*)(0))) == sizeof(yes));

};


I think the following should do the same thing but in a shorter way :

template < class T >
struct is_function {
    enum { value = is_convertible<void(*)(T),void(*)(T*)>::value };

};

[------

Full working version without an "is_convertible" facility :

typedef char (&yes) [1];
typedef char (&no) [2];

template < class T >
struct is_function {
    static yes test ( void(*)(T*) );
    static no test(...);
    enum { value = sizeof(yes) == sizeof(test( *(void(*)(T)) 0 )=

 )} ;

};

------]

I didn't test this extensively though.

The rule I'm using from the Standard is :
8.3.5.3 : [...] The type of a function is determined using the
following rules. The type of each parameter is determined from its own
decl-specifier-seq and declarator. After determining the type of each
parameter, any parameter of type =93array of T=94 or =93function returning=

T=94 is adjusted to be
=93pointer to T=94 or =93pointer to function returning T,=94 respectively.=

[...]


Very impressive!

Well, the implementation I mentioned and the one you did, both have a
defect:
T can't be reference type, as "pointer to reference is not allowed"

so a specialization of is_function is needed for reference type

template <typename T>
struct is_function<T&> {
  enum { value = false };
};

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