/* 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 // 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 // 7/14 - c++11 transition: std hash function vs. boost hash // 9/14 - variadic templates and perfect forwarding // 11/14 - pointer to member functions and name mangling // 8/15 - Segfault when loading into GDB (on Debian/Jessie 64bit // 8/15 - generalising the Variant::Visitor // 1/16 - generic to-string conversion for ostream /** @file try.cpp ** How to build generic string conversion into `ostream::operator<< `. ** ** This task is actually a conglomerate of several chores: ** - sanitise and segregate the type-traits usage ** - disentangle the existing toString conversion helper ** - extract a basic form from this helper, which can be placed ** into a header with minimal dependencies. After some consideration, ** I decided to allow `` in this category, which allows us ** at least to show a type name as fallback ** - distill an essential version of `enable_if`, which can be inlined. ** This allows us to get rid of `boost::enable_if` finally. ** - build a sensible `operator string()` for our `lib::P` based on this ** - and _finally_, to come up with a templated version of the `ostream` ** inserter `operator<<`, which does not cause too much havoc when ** used by default. The greatest challenge here is to avoid ambiguous ** overloads, yet also to deal with references, `void` and arrays. ** ** \par policy ** What shall be expected from such a generic toString conversion? ** It should be _minimal_, it should be _transparent_ and it should ** always work and deliver a string, irrespective of the circumstances. ** By extension, this means that we do not want to differentiate much ** between values, references and pointers, which also means, we do ** not want to indicate pointers explicitly (just signal NULL, when ** encountered). The situation is slightly different for the `ostream` ** inserter; in a modern GUI application, there isn't much use for ** STDOUT and STDERR, beyond error messages and unit testing. ** Thus, we can strive at building a more convenient flavour ** here, which does indeed even shows the address of pointers. ** */ typedef unsigned int uint; #include "lib/p.hpp" #include "lib/diff/gen-node.hpp" #include "lib/meta/util.hpp" #include "lib/meta/trait.hpp" #include #include #include #include using lib::diff::GenNode; using lib::P; using lib::meta::enable_if; using lib::meta::typeStr; using lib::meta::is_basically; using lib::meta::can_lexical2string; using lib::meta::can_convertToString; using lib::meta::CustomStringConv; using lib::meta::Strip; using std::__and_; using std::__not_; using std::string; using std::cout; using std::endl; ///////////////////////////////shall go into the implementation of lib::P template inline string stringz (P ptr) { if (not ptr) return "⟂ P<"+typeStr(ptr.get())+">"; else return CustomStringConv::invoke (*ptr); } /////////////////////////////////////////planned new ostream inclusion namespace { template struct use_StringConversion4Stream : __and_< std::is_class::TypePlain> ,__not_> ,__not_> > { }; } template>> std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, X const& obj) { return os << CustomStringConv::invoke (obj); } template>> std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, X* ptr) { if (ptr) return os << (void*)ptr << " ↗" << *ptr; else return os << "⟂ «" << typeStr() << "»"; } template std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, P const& ptr) { return os << stringz (ptr); } /////////////////////////////////////////planned new ostream inclusion class Reticent { uint neigh_ = 42; }; template inline P newP (ARGS&&... ctorArgs) { return P{new X {std::forward(ctorArgs)...}}; } template using BasicallyString = is_basically; template using BasicallyChar = is_basically::type, char>; void showTypes() { #define SHOW_CHECK(_EXPR_) cout << STRINGIFY(_EXPR_) << "\t : " << (_EXPR_::value? "Yes":"No") << endl; #define ANALYSE(_TYPE_) \ cout << "Type: " STRINGIFY(_TYPE_) " ......"<); \ SHOW_CHECK (BasicallyString<_TYPE_>); \ SHOW_CHECK (std::is_arithmetic<_TYPE_>);\ SHOW_CHECK (can_lexical2string<_TYPE_>); \ SHOW_CHECK (can_convertToString<_TYPE_>); \ SHOW_CHECK (use_StringConversion4Stream<_TYPE_>); using CharLit = typeof("bla"); using CharPtr = typeof(const char*); using GenNodePtr = typeof(GenNode*); using GenNodeRef = typeof(GenNode&); ANALYSE (string); ANALYSE (CharLit); ANALYSE (CharPtr) ANALYSE (Reticent) ANALYSE (P) ANALYSE (GenNode) ANALYSE (GenNodePtr) ANALYSE (GenNodeRef) ANALYSE (P) cout << endl; } int main (int, char**) { showTypes(); auto psss = newP(); auto gnng = newP("Hui", "Buh"); cout << "mauu..." << psss <