[boost] BOOST_EXPLICIT_OPERATOR_BOOL macro?

21 Apr 2010

      Hi,

IIUC, c+0x allows the safe bool idiom to be implemented as

explicit operator bool() const { ...}

but in c+03 emulating that behaviour is a bit messy.

There appears to be a solution for c+03 in
boost/smart_ptr/detail/operator_bool.hpp, but it's targeted for the
smart_ptr classes only.

Would it be possible to extract operator_bool.hpp into a reusable macro,
something like:

#include <boost/utility/operator_bool.hpp>
struct some
{
  BOOST_EXPLICIT_OPERATOR_BOOL( m_value != 0; )

 int m_value;
};

What do you think?

Cheers,
Christian

Christian Holmquist