Given the following templated function, how can I change it to take advantage of variadic templates? That is to say, to replace std::bind placeholders with a variadic parameter instead of P1 and P2? At the moment I have one of these functions per arity, with arity zero having no P parameter, up to arity 9 having P1 to P9 parameters. I was hoping to collapse this into a single function if possible.
template<typename R, typename T, typename U, typename P1, typename P2>
void Attach(R (T::*f)(P1, P2), U p)
{
AttachInternal(p, std::bind(f,
p.get(),
std::placeholders::_1,
std::placeholders::_2));
}
You can (partially) specialize std::is_placeholder
for specializations of a custom template. This way, you can introduce a placeholder generator via the usual int_sequence
technique.
From [func.bind.isplace]/2
The implementation shall provide a definition that has the
BaseCharacteristic
ofintegral_constant<int, J>
ifT
is the type ofstd::placeholders::_J
, otherwise it shall have aBaseCharacteristic
ofintegral_constant<int, 0>
. A program may specialize this template for a user-defined typeT
to have aBaseCharacteristic
ofintegral_constant<int, N>
withN > 0
to indicate thatT
should be treated as a placeholder type.
The usual int_sequence
:
#include <cstddef>
template<int...> struct int_sequence {};
template<int N, int... Is> struct make_int_sequence
: make_int_sequence<N-1, N-1, Is...> {};
template<int... Is> struct make_int_sequence<0, Is...>
: int_sequence<Is...> {};
The custom placeholder template and specialization of is_placeholder
:
template<int> // begin with 0 here!
struct placeholder_template
{};
#include <functional>
#include <type_traits>
namespace std
{
template<int N>
struct is_placeholder< placeholder_template<N> >
: integral_constant<int, N+1> // the one is important
{};
}
I'm not sure where to introduce the 1
; the places I considered are all not optimal.
Using it to write some binder:
template<class Ret, class... Args, int... Is>
void my_bind(Ret (*p)(Args...), int_sequence<Is...>)
{
auto x = std::bind(p, placeholder_template<Is>{}...);
x( Args(42)... );
}
template<class Ret, class... Args>
void my_bind(Ret (*p)(Args...))
{
my_bind(p, make_int_sequence< sizeof...(Args) >{});
}
Usage example of the binder:
#include <iostream>
void foo(double, char, int) { std::cout << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << "\n"; }
void bar(bool, short) { std::cout << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << "\n"; }
int main()
{
my_bind(foo);
my_bind(bar);
}
I would like to propose a more simple solution to the problem to bind a member function to a variable number of placeholders:
template<typename R, typename T, typename U, typename... Args>
std::function<R(Args...)> Attach(R (T::*f)(Args...), U p)
{
return [p,f](Args... args)->R { return (p->*f)(args...); };
};
A simple example of the usage looks like that
class CrazyAdd
{
public:
CrazyAdd(double val)
: m_crazyPart(val)
{}
double add(double a, double b)
{
return a+b+m_crazyPart;
}
private:
double m_crazyPart;
};
void main() {
CrazyAdd myAdd(39);
// Create a function object that is bound to myAdd
auto f = Attach(&CrazyAdd::add, &myAdd);
// Call the function with the parameters
std::cout << f(1,2) << std::endl; // outputs 42
}
Personally I think that's another good example why Scott Meyer recommends lambdas instead of std::bind.
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