Re: Introspect public member functions

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:25:58 CST
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On 2014-07-15 09:04, Lorenzo Caminiti wrote:

I am trying to write a C++11 meta-function that returns true if and
only if a class T has a public member function f (and false if either
T::f does not exist, or it is private, or it is protected).

Is this possible?


Yes.

The code below works correctly on CLang++ (3.1) but the
private/protected T::f raises compiler errors on G++ (4.5.3)...
Who is correct with respect to the C++11 standard?


This should work, so Clang looks right here.

The following alternative code also works gcc (but you need a version
greater than 4.8):

struct has_public_f_impl
{
   template<class T, class = decltype(std::declval<T&>().f())>
   static std::true_type check(int);

   template<class>
   static std::false_type check(...);
};

template<class T>
struct has_public_f : decltype(has_public_f_impl::check<T>(0))
{
};

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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