Re: Help with boost::enable_if

From:
cbarron3@ix.netcom.com (Carl Barron)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:19:41 CST
Message-ID:
<1ihvdpk.1r6yyueccvl48N%cbarron3@ix.netcom.com>
german diago <germandiago@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone knows why this code does not work?

      ClassName(typename boost::disable_if<std::is_const<T>>::type * =
0) ...

      ClassName(typename boost::enable_if<std::is_const<T>>::type * =
0) ...

The error is about boost::enable_if. I want to enable a constructor
based on the type (if the
type is const, enable the one below else enable the one above. The
error is:

hola.cpp:87: error: no type named ?type' in ?struct
boost::enable_if<std::is_const<std::basic_string<char,
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, void>'

That is the (simplified version of the) error. If I remove the one
below, the code works, because I instantiated the class as
ClassName<std::string> but if I add the template above, the compiler
complains.

Thanks for your time


boost::enable_if/disable_if are fairly simple templates that
take a wrappted boolean type [I think its boost::mpl::bool<...>
that is either boost::mpl::true_ or boost::mpl::false, one case
is an ampty struct and the other is an struct containing a nested
typedef of the second template parameter whic defaults to void

that is:

template <class B,class T = void> struct enable_if{};

template <class T> struct enable_if<boost::mpl::true_,T<
{
   tyoedef T type;
};

similar for di
so you want something like:
   ClassName
   (
     typename boost::enable_if
     <
         boost::is_const<T>,
         T *
     >::type * p = 0
   ) // rest of ctor for const T *.

   simiiliar with disable_if for non const T *.

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