Skip to content

add projections to tuple operations #70

Description

@marcorubini

Assume we want to invoke tuple_for_each or tuple_apply on the keys or values of a map. We can encode our projection inside the function object passed as argument, but it would be nicer to pass a unary function as optional third argument.

Consider this example

template<class... Pairs>
constexpr void reset_values1 (std::tuple<Pairs...>& map)
{
  mp11::tuple_for_each (map, [] (auto& p) {
    p.second = 0;
  });
}

template<class... Pairs>
constexpr void reset_values2 (std::tuple<Pairs...>& map)
{
    auto set_zero = [] (auto& x) {
      x = 0;
    };
    auto second = [] (auto& x) -> auto& {
      return x.second;
    };
    mp11::tuple_for_each (map, set_zero, second);
}

The second implementation is more verbose because we had to write some function objects, but it enables easier composition.
mp11 doesn't have useful function objects to compose with this feature, but higher order function libraries do.

Activity

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

      Milestone

      No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions