I wonder if the SFINAE principle/enable_if's can be used to "fake" the partial specialization of the class template method. For example, given the class template Foo
in which two versions of Foo::bar
are defined. I'd like to enable one and disable the other if T2 = int
(for example) and vice-versa.
template<typename T1, typename T2>
struct Foo
{
void bar();
};
// Enable if T2 != int (disable otherwise)
template<typename T1, typename T2>
void Foo<T1,T2>::bar()
{
}
// Enable if T2 == int (disable otherwise)
template<typename T1, typename T2>
void Foo<T1,T2>::bar()
{
}
PS: boost enable_if's preferred please. Thanks.
[Edited.] You can produce different overloads by typifying boolean values:
#include <type_traits>
template <typename T1, typename T2>
struct Foo
{
void bar_impl(std::true_type);
void bar_impl(std::false_type);
void bar() { bar_impl(std::is_same<T2, int>()); }
};