Suppose we have some SFINAE member function:
class foo{
template <class S, class = std::enable_if_t<std::is_integral<S>::value, S>
void bar(S&& s);
template <class S, class = std::enable_if_t<!std::is_integral<S>::value, S>
void bar(S&& s);
}
If we declared it as above, then how can we define them? Both of their function signatures would look like:
template <class S, class>
inline void foo::bar(S&& s){ ... do something ... }
I have seen examples where one returns an std::enable_if_t<...>
like:
template <class S, class>
auto bar(S&& s) -> std::enable_if_t<!std::is_integral<S>::value, S>(...){
... do something ...
}
To disambiguate based off of the return type. But I don't want to return anything.
since default arguments are not part of a function signature, make them not default
class foo{
template <class S, typename std::enable_if<std::is_integral<S>::value, int>::type = 0>
void bar(S&& s);
template <class S, typename std::enable_if<!std::is_integral<S>::value, int>::type = 0>
void bar(S&& s);
};
EDIT: by popular demand, Here's the same code in C++17:
class foo{
public:
template <class S>
void bar(S&& s)
{
if constexpr(std::is_integral_v<S>)
std::cout << "is integral\n";
else
std::cout << "NOT integral\n";
}
};
constexpr if statements are special to the compiler because the branch is chosen at compile time, and the non-taken branch isn't even instantiated