Re: decltype in template param list?

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:20:18 -0400
Message-ID:
<j0n0h3$hm2$1@dont-email.me>
On 7/26/2011 9:50 AM, Victor Bazarov wrote:

On 7/22/2011 5:14 PM, Noah Roberts wrote:

Trying to come up with a method to find out if a class contains a name
within it that is callable with certain variables, whether it's a
templated function or not.

Here's my attempt:

template < typename T > T&& declval(); // MSVC doesn't have.


Name was confusing to me so I changed it to 'xval' in my attempts.

template < typename T, typename Enable = void >
struct has_callable_f
: boost::mpl::false_


Oh, your code has no 'boost' headers... Please post *complete* code next
time. Thanks!

{};

template < typename T >
struct has_callable_f<T, decltype(declval<T>().f(declval<int>()))>


The line above is the reason I changed your 'declval' to 'xval' - too
much "decl". BTW, your 'test::f' does not have any arguments, is that
intentional?

: boost::mpl::true_
{};

struct test
{
template < typename T >
void f() {}
};

int main()
{
static_assert(has_callable_f<test>::value, "blah");
}

I get an error indicating the decltype expression is invalid:

1>d:\dev_workspace\experimental\2010scratch\2010scratch\scratch.cpp(20):
error C2228: left of '.f' must have class/struct/union
1> type is 'T'
1>

If I put 'test' instead of 'T' (moving the declaration of course) then
it works.

Is what I'm trying to do legitimate?


I'm still trying to get my head around your problem, sorry for not being
helpful so far. I'm gonna dig around a bit and will get back to the
group with what I find, OK?


I've dug around a bit, and so far this is doesn't work as expected:
-------------------------------------
template < bool v > struct bool_ { enum { yesno = v }; };
typedef bool_<false> false_;
typedef bool_<true> true_;

template < typename T, typename U = void >
struct has_nested_type : false_
{
};

template < typename T >
struct has_nested_type<T, typename T::nested > : true_
{
};

struct test
{
    typedef int nested;
};

struct noftest
{
};

int main()
{
    static_assert(has_nested_type<test>::yesno, "test: BAD");
    static_assert(has_nested_type<noftest>::yesno, "noftest: BAD");
}
-------------------------------------
which leads me to believe that either VC++ is not up to snuff yet on
instantiating the templates the way we think they ought to be
instantiated (so I'd like somebody to try that code with another C++0x
compliant compiler), or there is something we're missing with the way
the partial specialisation is supposed to be chosen over the generic
one. BTW, I tried it with Comeau online, and it also failed on both
assertions, which doesn't prove it's right, just makes me feel that I
need to dig more thoroughly around partial specialisations and their
instantiation.

V
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