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Home » Extra libraries, Code snippets, applications etc. » C++ language problems and code snippets » Nested template question
Nested template question [message #51842] Sun, 09 June 2019 16:16 Go to next message
koldo is currently offline  koldo
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Hi all

I wanted to overload a function to get a zero (it is a sample):
void test() {
	double val 		   = GetAZero<double>();	
	std::complex<float>  valc1 = GetAZero<std::complex<float>>();
	std::complex<double> valc1 = GetAZero<std::complex<double>>();
}

This code works, but it is not nice:
template <class T> T 			GetAZero() {return 0;}
	
template <> 	   std::complex<float>	GetAZero() {return std::complex<float> (0, 0);}
template <> 	   std::complex<double> GetAZero() {return std::complex<double>(0, 0);}


This code is more compact, but it does not work:
template <class T> 		 T 			GetAZero() {return 0;}
	
template <class std::complex<T>> std::complex<T>	GetAZero() {return std::complex<T> (0, 0);}

Is there an adequate way to do this?


Best regards
Iñaki
Re: Nested template question [message #51868 is a reply to message #51842] Mon, 10 June 2019 20:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Novo is currently offline  Novo
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struct AZero {
	template <typename T>
	operator T() const {return 0;}
	
	template <typename T>
	operator std::complex<T>() const {return std::complex<T>(0, 0);}
};

double val    = AZero();
std::complex<float>  valc1 = AZero();
std::complex<double>  valc2 = AZero();

Checked with Clang.

What you are trying to do is

template <typename T> 	T GetAZero() {return 0;}
template <typename T> std::complex<T>	GetAZero<class std::complex<T>>() {return std::complex<T> (0, 0);}

It won't compile because this is partial function specialization, which is allowed only for classes.

The way I implemented this is also partial function specialization, but for some reason it compiles Rolling Eyes


Regards,
Novo
Re: Nested template question [message #51869 is a reply to message #51868] Mon, 10 June 2019 21:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
koldo is currently offline  koldo
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Thank you Novo

Nice hack... the problem is that my code is already inside a class, so GetAZero() is really a class function Sad
To solve this, the inner class should have to point the outer class, maybe passing a pointer in the inner class constructor, but then the hack is getting more complex.


Best regards
Iñaki

[Updated on: Mon, 10 June 2019 21:41]

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Re: Nested template question [message #51871 is a reply to message #51869] Mon, 10 June 2019 23:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Novo is currently offline  Novo
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I don't really get what you need to do.
If it is just setting any class to zero, as in your example, then you do not need method GetAZero(). Class AZero will work out of the box.
If you are trying to specialize your template method for all possible variants of std::complex<T>, then this is called partial template specialization, and it works only for classes. You need to create a dummy class and partially specialize it.
template <typename T>
struct dummy {
	T DoIt() const { return T(); }
};

template <typename T>
struct dummy<std::complex<T>> {
	using PT = std::complex<T>;
	PT DoIt() const { return PT(0, 0); }
};

struct Boo {
	Boo() {
		double val    = GetAZero<double>();
		std::complex<float>  valc1 = GetAZero<std::complex<float>>();
		std::complex<double>  valc2 = GetAZero<std::complex<double>>();
	}
	
	template <class T>
	T GetAZero() { return dummy<T>().DoIt(); }
};


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Novo
Re: Nested template question [message #51873 is a reply to message #51871] Tue, 11 June 2019 09:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
koldo is currently offline  koldo
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Thank you Novo.

What I mean is that in my case dummy structs should have to access Boo struct. DoIt() function could have an argument pointing to Boo. However I see that in general the solution is more complex than the problem. Thank you!


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Iñaki
Re: Nested template question [message #52225 is a reply to message #51842] Mon, 12 August 2019 09:56 Go to previous message
slashupp is currently offline  slashupp
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Don't know if I understand the problem correctly,
but I came up with the following:

#include <iostream>
#include <complex>

template<typename...P> void say(P...p){ (std::cout << ... << p); }

template<typename T> T mkZero(T &t) { t=T(0); return t; }
template<typename T, typename...V> T mkVal(T &t, V...v) { t=T(v...); return t; }

int main()
{
    int i;
    float f;
    double d;
    std::complex<int> ci;
    std::complex<float> cf;
    std::complex<double> cd;

    mkVal(i, 11);
    mkVal(f, 22.22);
    mkVal(d, 33);
    mkVal(ci, 44, 44);
    mkVal(cf, 5.5, 55.55);
    mkVal(cd, 66, 66.6);

    say("valued: i=", i, ", f=", f, ", d=", d, ", ci=", ci, ", cf=", cf, ", cd=", cd, "\n");

    mkZero(i);
    mkZero(f);
    mkZero(d);
    mkZero(ci);
    mkZero(cf);
    mkZero(cd);

    say("zeroed: i=", i, ", f=", f, ", d=", d, ", ci=", ci, ", cf=", cf, ", cd=", cd, "\n");

    return 0;
}


Output:
valued: i=11, f=22.22, d=33, ci=(44,44), cf=(5.5,55.55), cd=(66,66.6)
zeroed: i=0, f=0, d=0, ci=(0,0), cf=(0,0), cd=(0,0)

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