Variadic Templates - different types of expansion

Question

Andrei Alexandrescu gave an excellent talk entitled: Variadic Templates are Funadic.

He presents the following 3 expansions which are subltey different:

Answer 1

#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <typeinfo>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cxxabi.h>

template <typename T>
std::unique_ptr<char, void(*)(void*)>
type_name()
{
    return std::unique_ptr<char, void(*)(void*)>
           (
                __cxxabiv1::__cxa_demangle(typeid(T).name(), nullptr,
                                           nullptr, nullptr),
                std::free
           );
}

void display() {}

template <class T>
void
display()
{
    std::cout << type_name<T>().get() << ' ';
}

template <class T, class T2, class ...Tail>
void
display()
{
    std::cout << type_name<T>().get() << ' ';
    display<T2, Tail...>();
}

template <class... Ts>
struct A
{
    template <class... Us>
        static
        int
        hun(Us... us)
        {
            std::cout << "A<";
            display<Ts...>();
            std::cout << ">::hun(";
            display<Us...>();
            std::cout << ")\n";
            return 0;
        }
};

template <class ...T>
void gun(T...) {}

template <class... Ts> void fun( Ts... vs )
{
    std::cout << "gun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs)...);\n";
    gun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs)...);
    std::cout << "\ngun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs...));\n";
    gun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs...));
    std::cout << "\ngun( A<Ts>::hun(vs)...);\n";
    gun( A<Ts>::hun(vs)...);
}

int main()
{
    fun(1, 'a', 2.3);
}

Output:

gun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs)...);
A<int char double >::hun(int )
A<int char double >::hun(char )
A<int char double >::hun(double )

gun( A<Ts...>::hun(vs...));
A<int char double >::hun(int char double )

gun( A<Ts>::hun(vs)...);
A<int >::hun(int )
A<char >::hun(char )
A<double >::hun(double )

Answer 2

Cases 2 and 3 really are very common in any kind of code involving variadic packs.

template<typename... T>
void f(T&&... t)
{
    // Case 2:
    auto t2 = std::tuple<T...>(t...);

    // Case 3:
    auto t3 = std::make_tuple(std::forward<T>(t)...);
}

Looking at my own code, I can't find any surviving example of case 1. I may have used it in the past in some detail namespace for a helper tempate, but I'm not sure. I don't think it's going to be common or even necessary most of the time.