Variadic templates and std::bind

c++, templates

Solution

You can (partially) specialize `std::is_placeholder` for specializations of a custom template. This way, you can introduce a placeholder generator via the usual `int_sequence` technique.

From [func.bind.isplace]/2

The implementation shall provide a definition that has the `BaseCharacteristic` of `integral_constant<int, J>` if `T` is the type of `std::placeholders::_J`, otherwise it shall have a `BaseCharacteristic` of `integral_constant<int, 0>`. A program may specialize this template for a user-defined type `T` to have a `BaseCharacteristic` of `integral_constant<int, N>` with `N > 0` to indicate that `T` should be treated as a placeholder type.

The usual `int_sequence`:

#include <cstddef>

template<int...> struct int_sequence {};

template<int N, int... Is> struct make_int_sequence
    : make_int_sequence<N-1, N-1, Is...> {};
template<int... Is> struct make_int_sequence<0, Is...>
    : int_sequence<Is...> {};

The custom placeholder template and specialization of `is_placeholder`:

template<int> // begin with 0 here!
struct placeholder_template
{};

#include <functional>
#include <type_traits>

namespace std
{
    template<int N>
    struct is_placeholder< placeholder_template<N> >
        : integral_constant<int, N+1> // the one is important
    {};
}

I'm not sure where to introduce the `1`; the places I considered are all not optimal.

Using it to write some binder:

template<class Ret, class... Args, int... Is>
void my_bind(Ret (*p)(Args...), int_sequence<Is...>)
{
    auto x = std::bind(p, placeholder_template<Is>{}...);
    x( Args(42)... );
}

template<class Ret, class... Args>
void my_bind(Ret (*p)(Args...))
{
    my_bind(p, make_int_sequence< sizeof...(Args) >{});
}

Usage example of the binder:

#include <iostream>

void foo(double, char, int) { std::cout << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << "\n"; }
void bar(bool, short) { std::cout << __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ << "\n"; }

int main()
{
    my_bind(foo);
    my_bind(bar);
}

Problem

Given the following templated function, how can I change it to take advantage of variadic templates? That is to say, to replace std::bind placeholders with a variadic parameter instead of P1 and P2? At the moment I have one of these functions per arity, with arity zero having no P parameter, up to arity 9 having P1 to P9 parameters. I was hoping to collapse this into a single function if possible. ``` template<typename R, typename T, typename U, typename P1, typename P2> void Attach(R (T::*f)(P1, P2), U p) { AttachInternal(p, std::bind(f, p.get(), std::placeholders::_1, std::placeholders::_2)); } ```

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