lumiera_/research/try.cpp
Ichthyostega a205653cad C++ uses a more precise meaning of 'convertiblity' now
Conversion means automatic conversion. In our case,
what we need ist the ability to *construct* a bool from
our (function) object -- while functors aren't automatically
convertible to bool. Thus we use one of the new predicates
from <type_traits>
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/* try.cpp - for trying out some language features....
* scons will create the binary bin/try
*
*/
// 8/07 - how to control NOBUG??
// execute with NOBUG_LOG='ttt:TRACE' bin/try
// 1/08 - working out a static initialisation problem for Visitor (Tag creation)
// 1/08 - check 64bit longs
// 4/08 - comparison operators on shared_ptr<Asset>
// 4/08 - conversions on the value_type used for boost::any
// 5/08 - how to guard a downcasting access, so it is compiled in only if the involved types are convertible
// 7/08 - combining partial specialisation and subclasses
// 10/8 - abusing the STL containers to hold noncopyable values
// 6/09 - investigating how to build a mixin template providing an operator bool()
// 12/9 - tracking down a strange "warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type"
// 1/10 - can we determine at compile time the presence of a certain function (for duck-typing)?
// 4/10 - pretty printing STL containers with python enabled GDB?
// 1/11 - exploring numeric limits
// 1/11 - integer floor and wrap operation(s)
// 1/11 - how to fetch the path of the own executable -- at least under Linux?
// 10/11 - simple demo using a pointer and a struct
// 11/11 - using the boost random number generator(s)
// 12/11 - how to detect if string conversion is possible?
// 1/12 - is partial application of member functions possible?
// 5/14 - c++11 transition: detect empty function object
/** @file try.cpp
** Investigation: empty and unbound function objects.
** Since \c std::function is bool convertible, it should be possible to detect an empty or
** unbound functor object and record this state in a VTable. Actually this approach used to
** work with tr1::function objects. But it ceased to work after switching to c++11
**
** The reason is the more concise meaning of \em convertibility with C++11 -- now, an
** automatic conversion is required; thus what we need is rather the ability to \em construct
** our target type from the given source explicitly, which is a weaker requirement.
**
*/
#include <type_traits>
#include <functional>
#include <iostream>
//using std::placeholders::_1;
//using std::placeholders::_2;
using std::function;
using std::bind;
using std::string;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
uint
funny (char c)
{
return c;
}
using FUC = function<uint(char)>;
int
main (int, char**)
{
FUC fun(funny);
FUC empty;
cout << "ASCII 'A' = " << fun('A');
cout << " defined: " << bool(fun)
<< " undefd; " << bool(empty)
<< " bool-convertible: " << std::is_convertible<FUC, bool>::value
<< " can build bool: " << std::is_constructible<bool,FUC>::value
<< " bool from string: " << std::is_constructible<bool,string>::value;
cout << "\n.gulp.\n";
return 0;
}