Template constraints for reference/value types?
Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 6 14:16:05 PDT 2016
On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 21:00:53 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 20:46:54 UTC, Jon Degenhardt
> wrote:
>> Is there a way to constrain template arguments to reference or
>> value types? I'd like to do something like:
>>
>> T foo(T)(T x)
>> if (isReferenceType!T)
>> { ... }
>>
>> --Jon
>
> You can use `if(is(T : class) || is(T : interface))`.
>
> If you also need other types, std.traits contains a bunch of
> useful templates: isArray, isAssociativeArray, isPointer, ...
Thanks. This looks like a practical approach.
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