All try to do is to make this piece of code
int main() {
if constexpr( ??? ) {
std::cout << "Yes\n";
std::cout << f() << '\n';
std::cout << f(42) << '\n';
}
else {
std::cout << "No\n";
}
return 0;
}
f
is defined as in any of these examples// Example 1
int f(int n = 0) { return n; }
// Example 2
int f(int n) { return n; }
int f() { return 0; }
// Example 3
int f(int n) { return n; }
Yes
for examples 1
and 2
, and display No
for the example 3
.Is this even possible? I think I've seen someone doing this with SFINAE but I don't remember how exactly it was done and where exactly I saw that. Thank you in advance.
if constexpr
can’t protect ill-formed code outside of any template (e.g., in main
). The obvious thing to do is to write a template that accepts f
itself as a template argument, but to do that you have to reify your overload set. The usual way to do that is as a SFINAE-friendly function object:
template<class F,class=void>
constexpr bool opt=false;
template<class F>
constexpr bool opt<F,decltype(std::declval<F>()(1),void(std::declval<F>()()))> =true;
template<class F> int use(F &&x) {
if constexpr(opt<F>) return x(1)+x();
else return 0;
}
const auto f_=[](auto &&...aa) -> decltype(f(std::forward<decltype(aa)>(aa)...))
{return f(std::forward<decltype(aa)>(aa)...);};
int main() {use(f_);}
In some cases there is also the option of creating a “fake” template that uses calls that are formally dependent but always use the types you want, but that’s impossible for a call f()
with no arguments, which is ill-formed (possibly with no diagnostic required) immediately if your f
requires an argument since it can’t depend on a template parameter.