simple (I think) eponymous template question ... what is proper idimatic way ?
Paul Backus
snarwin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 20:13:59 UTC 2021
On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 19:53:52 UTC, james.p.leblanc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 19:44:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>>
>> You could use a helper template and an AliasSeq for this:
>>
>> template isAmong(T, S...) {
>> static if (S.length == 0)
>> enum isAmong = false;
>> else
>> enum isAmong = is(T == S) ||
>> isAmong(T, S[1..$]);
>> }
>>
>> import std.meta : AliasSeq;
>> alias MyTypes = AliasSeq!(int, float, MySpecialStruct);
>>
>> auto myFunc(T)(T a, T b) if (isAmong!(T, MyTypes)) { ... }
>>
>>
>> T
>
> Dear H.S. Teoh,
>
> Wow! That is absolutely beautiful ... I had never seen (or even
> imagined) a recursive template! This expands my mind in a good
> way ... and is going into my toolbox immediately.
>
> Best Regards,
> James
FYI: in this particular case, you can use std.meta.staticIndexOf
instead of writing the recursion out yourself:
import std.meta: staticIndexOf;
enum isAmong(T, S...) = staticIndexOf!(T, S) >= 0;
Docs: https://phobos.dpldocs.info/std.meta.staticIndexOf.html
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