On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Marshall Clow wrote:
I have a function that returns a pair of iterators. There's also a version that takes a comparison predicate.
template<class ForwardIterator, class Compare> std::pair<ForwardIterator, ForwardIterator> foo ( ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last );
template<class ForwardIterator, class Compare> std::pair<ForwardIterator, ForwardIterator> foo ( ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, Compare comp );
I want to provide a range-based version of it.
template<class Range> std::pair<typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type, typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type> foo ( const Range &r );
template<class Range, class Compare> std::pair<typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type, typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type> foo ( const Range &r, Compare comp );
Ok. There's a problem. If I call: foo ( first, last ) I get an error, because there are two perfectly good two argument candidates.
Fine. Been there, seen that. I can use disable_if to make sure that the second range based version is only "active" when the arguments are different types. It's verbose, but it (usually) works
template<class Range, class Compare> typename boost::disable_if_c<boost::is_same<Range, Compare>::value, std::pair<typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type, typename boost::range_iterator<const Range>::type> >::type foo ( const Range &r, Compare comp );
But this time it does not! I get a compile error telling me that the compiler can't deal with boost::range_iterator<XXX>::type, when XXX = some random iterator. It seems that the compiler wants to evaluate all the parameters of disable_if_c before deciding whether or not to SFINAE it (I guess that's not unreasonable, but it's not what I want)
Apparently, all the other times that I did this, the return type of the function was not a dependent type of the template arguments.
Any suggestions for a workaround here?
Look at lazy_disable_if -- it doesn't get the nested "type" member of the type you give it unless the condition evaluates to false. -- Jeremiah Willcock