Re: Small meta-programming exercise

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:59:57 -0500
Message-ID:
<hi027d$r2h$1@news.datemas.de>
mathieu wrote:

Hi there,

  I was faced with the following issue: trying to avoid code
duplication in complexfunc1 / complexfunc2:

struct S
{
  template <typename T1, typename T2>
  void Foo() const { }

  template <typename T1, typename T2>
  void Bla(int i) const { }
};

void complexfunc1()
{
  S s;
  s.Foo<int,float>();
  s.Foo<double,float>();
  s.Foo<long,float>();
}

void complexfunc2(int i)
{
  S s;
  s.Bla<int,float>(i);
  s.Bla<double,float>(i);
  s.Bla<long,float>(i);
}

At first it looked easy but after much struggle all I could come up
with is the following solution:

template <int T> struct SHelper;
template <> struct SHelper<0>
{
  template <typename T1, typename T2>
  static void FooBla(S const & s, int ) { s.Foo<T1,T2>(); }
};
template <> struct SHelper<1>
{
  template <typename T1, typename T2>
  static void FooBla(S const & s, int i) { s.Bla<T1,T2>(i); }
};

template <int TT>
void complexfunc(int i)
{
  S s;
  SHelper<TT>::template FooBla<int,float>(s,i);
  SHelper<TT>::template FooBla<double,float>(s,i);
  SHelper<TT>::template FooBla<long,float>(s,i);
}

Am I missing something obvious or passing member function as template
parameter is not that easy.


A slightly different solution (run-time decision instead of specialization):

class Caller
{
    bool m_bvoid;
    int m_i;
public:
    Caller() : m_bvoid(true) {}
    Caller(int i) : m_bvoid(false), m_i(i) {}

    template<class T1, class T2>
    void call_it(S const & s) const
    {
       if (m_bvoid)
          s.Foo<T1,T2>();
       else
          s.Bla<T1,T2>(m_i);
    }
};

void complexfunc(Caller const& c = Caller())
{
    S s;
    c.call_it<int,float>(s);
    c.call_it<double,float>(s);
    c.call_it<long,float>(s);
}

int main()
{
    complexfunc();
    complexfunc(42);
}

V
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