Variadic templates

Question

C++0x will allow template to take an arbitrary number of arguments. What is the best use of this feature other than implementing tuples ?

Answer 1

1. Type-safe printf
2. Forwarding of arbitrary many constructor arguments in factory methods
3. Having arbitrary base-classes allows for putting and removing useful policies.
4. Initializing by moving heterogenous typed objects directly into a container by having a variadic template'd constructor.
5. Having a literal operator that can calculate a value for a user defined literal (like "10110b").

Sample to 3:

template<typename... T> struct flexible : T... { flexible(): T()... { } }; 

Sample to 4:

struct my_container { template<typename... T> my_container(T&&... t) { } }; my_container c = { a, b, c }; 

Sample to 5:

template<char... digits> int operator "" b() { return convert<digits...>::value; } 

See this example code: here

Answer 2

Maybe the talk by Andrei Alexandrescu on the Going Native 2012 event, will be of your interest:

Here is the video and Here the documentation.