Steven Ross wrote:
Is there a boolean argument that can be used to identify whether a data type is some form of string that has a [] operator that returns an integer data type (preferably 2 or less bytes in size)? I now am using enable_if so that strings and floats are identified and the proper specialized call is made for them when spread_sort is called by the user. It would be nice to automatically identify strings too inside enable_if, so that the user can just call "spread_sort" and the correct specialized and optimized sorting call will be made depending on the data type for integers, floats, and strings, and std::sort will be called for unsupported data types. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
Well you cna easily write a small traits meta-functions using sizeof trick to detect the presence of operator[] Check the Introspection.zip file in the vault, there is prototype for such thing