List parameters

[user]

Hi,

I try this code:

template <typename Tinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b)
{
return a<b?b:a;
}

template <typename T, ... listinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b, list const& x)
{
return max(a, max(b, x));
}
But it not compile.
I have this message:
"error: expected identifier before '...' token"

I saw this sample in book "c++ templates: the complete guide"
i use wxWidgets with gcc compiler.

Is this code legal? is it compile?
If no how use list parameters in template?

Thunks

[David Harmon]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:06:20 +0200 in comp.lang.c++,
us**@domain.invalid wrote,

> template <typename T, ... listinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b, list const& x)
{
return max(a, max(b, x));
}

No, the ... is not at all allowed there.
This is from chapter 13, "Future Directions", where the authors are
discussing things that don't exist yet, but might in the future,
right???

[Lahsen]

David Harmon a écrit :

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:06:20 +0200 in comp.lang.c++,
us**@domain.invalid wrote,

>> template <typename T, ... listinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b, list const& x)
{
return max(a, max(b, x));
}

No, the ... is not at all allowed there.
This is from chapter 13, "Future Directions", where the authors are
discussing things that don't exist yet, but might in the future,
right???

Ok,
Thunks.

I try to do it with typeListe technique in modern c++.

But there'is function ellipsis like:

void f(int ...);

f(1, 2, 3);
f(45, 68 ,2 ,64 ,3598);

that compile. But it's not easy to use argument of this function.

[loufoque]

Lahsen wrote:

>
But there'is function ellipsis like:

void f(int ...);

f(1, 2, 3);
f(45, 68 ,2 ,64 ,3598);

that compile. But it's not easy to use argument of this function.

That's a runtime thing which isn't type-safe at all.
It should be avoided.

[loufoque]

us**@domain.invalid wrote:

Hi,

I try this code:

template <typename Tinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b)
{
return a<b?b:a;
}

template <typename T, ... listinline
T const& max(T const& a, T const& b, list const& x)
{
return max(a, max(b, x));
}
But it not compile.

You might want to play around with variadic templates, a proposal for
the next C++ standard which will allow what you want.
There is already a patch to implement it in GCC.