LUMIERA.clone/research/try.cpp
Ichthyostega e054c272b6 research: detecting the possibility of a string conversion
find out about the corner cases of this
simplistic implementation
2011-12-31 06:46:50 +01:00

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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?
#include "lib/util.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using std::string;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
typedef char Yes_t;
struct No_t { char more_than_one[4]; };
template<typename TY>
struct _can_convertToString
{
static TY & probe();
static Yes_t check(string);
static No_t check(...);
public:
static const bool value = (sizeof(Yes_t)==sizeof(check(probe())));
};
class SubString
: public string
{
public:
SubString() : string("sublunar") { }
};
class Something { };
struct SomehowStringy
{
operator string() { return "No such thing"; }
};
struct SomehowSub
{
operator SubString() { return SubString(); }
};
class SomehowSubSub
: public SomehowSub
{
};
template<typename TY>
bool
investigate (TY const&)
{
return _can_convertToString<TY>::value;
}
#define SHOW_CHECK(_EXPR_) cout << STRINGIFY(_EXPR_) << "\t : " << (investigate(_EXPR_)? "Yes":"No") << endl;
int
main (int, char**)
{
SHOW_CHECK (string("nebbich"));
SHOW_CHECK ("gurks");
SHOW_CHECK (23.34);
SHOW_CHECK (23);
string urgs("urgs");
string & urgs_ref (urgs);
string const& urgs_const_ref (urgs);
string * urgs_ptr = &urgs;
SHOW_CHECK (urgs_ref);
SHOW_CHECK (urgs_const_ref);
SHOW_CHECK (*urgs_ptr);
SubString sub;
Something thing;
const SomehowStringy stringy = SomehowStringy();
SomehowSubSub subsub;
SubString const& subRef(subsub);
SHOW_CHECK (sub);
SHOW_CHECK (thing);
SHOW_CHECK (stringy);
SHOW_CHECK (subsub);
SHOW_CHECK (subRef);
cout << "\n.gulp.\n";
return 0;
}