Extending UFCS to templates

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 13:18:22 PST 2012


I thought I'd be cool if we could use UFCS for templates. For example
instead of this:

template isOneOf(X, T...)
{
    static if (!T.length)
        enum bool isOneOf = false;
    else static if (is(Unqual!X == T[0]))
        enum bool isOneOf = true;
    else
        enum bool isOneOf = isOneOf!(Unqual!X, T[1..$]);
}

void test(T)(T t)
    if (isOneOf!(T, int, double))
{ }

void main() {
    test(1);
}

We would be able use code like this:

void test(T)(T t)
    if (T.isOneOf!(int, double))  // UFCS (or maybe Uniform Template
Instantiation Syntax? :p)
{ }

A far-fetched dream?


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