Re: c++0x: static_assert & concepts

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:37:35 CST
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On 17 Okt., 02:38, Mathias Gaunard <loufo...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16 oct, 00:38, SG <s.gesem...@gmail.com> wrote:

There is a way to turn an old-style
compile-time predicate (template<..> struct {..};) into a concept via
std::True. But it doesn't work the other way around, does it?


template<typename T>
struct is_foo
{
    static const bool value = false;

};

template<Foo T>
struct is_foo<T>
{
    static const bool value = true;

};


Right. But you have to define such a struct for every concept because
something like this

  template<concept C, typename... T>
  struct is_true
  { static const bool value = false; };

  template<concept C, typename... T>
  requires C<T>
  { static const bool value = true; };

  :::
  auto it = get_iterator(); // some non-template code
  static_assert(is_true<ForwardIterator,decltype(it)>::value);
  :::

(passing a concept as template parameter) isn't allowed as far as I
can tell. This doesn't really fit my definition of "easy". I would
have liked to use

I didn't know it was possible to turn a meta-function into a concept.
How is it done?


concept True<bool B> {}; // is part of the
concept_map True<true> {}; // <concepts> header

template<typename T>
requires True<old_style_predicate<T>::value>
void f(const T&);

In this case we don't need to specify a new concept each time. True<>
can be used with all old-style compile-time predicates.

Cheers,
SG

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