I\'m trying to learn some arcane stateful template metaprogramming tricks.
(Here\'s why I want to learn it. Unfortunately this library doesn\'t work on GCC
As I didn't find fully working version, I improved @anthony-williams solution by adding custom start and step value, and also added some compatibility with MVSC, clang and gcc (thanx to @segfault comment).
I hope it may me helpful.
code
tests
namespace detail
{
template class Flag
{
struct Dummy
{
constexpr Dummy()
{
}
friend constexpr void adl_flag(Dummy);
};
template
struct Writer
{
friend constexpr void adl_flag(Dummy)
{
}
};
template
static constexpr bool Check(int)
{
return true;
}
template
static constexpr bool Check(short)
{
return false;
}
public:
template (0)>
static constexpr bool ReadSet()
{
Writer tmp{};
(void)tmp;
return Value;
}
template (0)>
static constexpr int Read()
{
return Value;
}
};
template
struct Tag
{
constexpr int value() const noexcept
{
return I;
}
};
template
struct Checker
{
static constexpr int currentval() noexcept
{
return N;
}
};
template
struct CheckerWrapper
{
template>{}.Read(), int M = Checker{}.currentval() >
static constexpr int currentval()
{
return M;
}
};
template
struct Checker
{
template{}.currentval() >
static constexpr int currentval() noexcept
{
return M;
}
};
template>{}.ReadSet() >
struct Next
{
static constexpr int value() noexcept
{
return N;
}
};
}
template
class constexpr_counter
{
public:
template {}.currentval()>
static constexpr int next()
{
return detail::Next{}.value();
}
};
examples:
using counter_A_0_1 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int a0 = counter_A_0_1::next();
constexpr int a1 = counter_A_0_1::next();
constexpr int a2 = counter_A_0_1::next();
static_assert(a0 == 0);
static_assert(a1 == 1);
static_assert(a2 == 2);
using counter_B_0_1 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int b0 = counter_B_0_1::next();
constexpr int b1 = counter_B_0_1::next();
constexpr int b2 = counter_B_0_1::next();
static_assert(b0 == 0);
static_assert(b1 == 1);
static_assert(b2 == 2);
using counter_C_2_1 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int c0 = counter_C_2_1::next();
constexpr int c1 = counter_C_2_1::next();
constexpr int c2 = counter_C_2_1::next();
static_assert(c0 == 2);
static_assert(c1 == 3);
static_assert(c2 == 4);
using counter_D_4_1 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int d0 = counter_D_4_1::next();
constexpr int d1 = counter_D_4_1::next();
constexpr int d2 = counter_D_4_1::next();
static_assert(d0 == 4);
static_assert(d1 == 5);
static_assert(d2 == 6);
using counter_E_5_3 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int e0 = counter_E_5_3::next();
constexpr int e1 = counter_E_5_3::next();
constexpr int e2 = counter_E_5_3::next();
static_assert(e0 == 5);
static_assert(e1 == 8);
static_assert(e2 == 11);
using counter_F_2_m3 = constexpr_counter;
constexpr int f0 = counter_F_2_m3::next();
constexpr int f1 = counter_F_2_m3::next();
constexpr int f2 = counter_F_2_m3::next();
static_assert(f0 == 2);
static_assert(f1 == -1);
static_assert(f2 == -4);