Difference between revisions of "cpp/types/conjunction"

Revision as of 01:18, 30 May 2023

Forms the logical conjunction of the type traits B..., effectively performing a logical AND on the sequence of traits.

The specialization std::conjunction<B1, ..., BN> has a public and unambiguous base that is

• if sizeof...(B) == 0, std::true_type; otherwise
• the first type Bi in B1, ..., BN for which bool(Bi::value) == false, or BN if there is no such type.

The member names of the base class, other than conjunction and operator=, are not hidden and are unambiguously available in conjunction.

Conjunction is short-circuiting: if there is a template type argument Bi with bool(Bi::value) == false, then instantiating conjunction<B1, ..., BN>::value does not require the instantiation of Bj::value for j > i.

If the program adds specializations for std::conjunction or std::conjunction_v, the behavior is undefined.

Template parameters

Helper variable template

Possible implementation

template<class...> struct conjunction : std::true_type {};
template<class B1> struct conjunction<B1> : B1 {};
template<class B1, class... Bn>
struct conjunction<B1, Bn...>
    : std::conditional_t<bool(B1::value), conjunction<Bn...>, B1> {};

Notes

A specialization of conjunction does not necessarily inherit from either std::true_type or std::false_type: it simply inherits from the first B whose ::value, explicitly converted to bool, is false, or from the very last B when all of them convert to true. For example, std::conjunction<std::integral_constant<int, 2>, std::integral_constant<int, 4>>::value is 4.

The short-circuit instantiation differentiates conjunction from fold expressions: a fold expression, like (... && Bs::value), instantiates every B in Bs, while std::conjunction_v<Bs...> stops instantiation once the value can be determined. This is particularly useful if the later type is expensive to instantiate or can cause a hard error when instantiated with the wrong type.

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <type_traits>
 
// func is enabled if all Ts... have the same type as T
template<typename T, typename... Ts>
std::enable_if_t<std::conjunction_v<std::is_same<T, Ts>...>>
func(T, Ts...)
{
    std::cout << "all types in pack are T\n";
}
 
// otherwise
template<typename T, typename... Ts>
std::enable_if_t<!std::conjunction_v<std::is_same<T, Ts>...>>
func(T, Ts...)
{
    std::cout << "not all types in pack are T\n";
}
 
template<typename T, typename... Ts>
constexpr bool all_types_are_same = std::conjunction_v<std::is_same<T, Ts>...>;
 
static_assert(all_types_are_same<int, int, int>);
static_assert(not all_types_are_same<int, int&, int>);
 
int main()
{
    func(1, 2, 3);
    func(1, 2, "hello!");
}

all types in pack are T
not all types in pack are T

See also