Closest Common Type
BCS
ao at pathlink.com
Fri May 16 10:34:44 PDT 2008
Reply to Lutger,
> BCS wrote:
>
>> I have a tuple of types, I want a template that evaluates to the most
>> specialized base type of all of them. I'll be using it for classes
>> but for other cases it just needs to do something sane (erroring out
>> would do).
>>
>> No point in reinventing the wheel so, anyone have such a template
>> laying around?
>>
> tango.core.Tuple and std.typetuple have templates called MostDerived
> and DerivedToFront, these might be helpful?
>
I might be able to use somthing like that as a starting point but what I
want is this
class A {}
class B : A {}
class C : A {}
class D : C {}
class E : C {}
class F {}
CCT!(E, D) // == C
CCT!(E, C) // == C
CCT!(E, B) // == A
CCT!(E, A) // == A
CCT!(E, F) // == object
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