On Wednesday 13 October 2010 07:10:15 Eric Niebler wrote:
> On 10/4/2010 11:51 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Eric Niebler wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Heller
<snip>
> > Note: i created a unpack transform which is boilerplate code for the
> >
> > extraction of the children of the current node. So what it
> > does is, that it calls the proto::callable passed as first
> > template parameter and is applies an optional transform to
> > the children prior to passing it to the callable,
> > additionally it is able to forward the data and state to the
> > transform
>
> I had a really hard time grokking unpack. In Proto, function-types are
> used to represent function invocation and object construction. The type
> "X(A,B,C)" means either call "X" with three arguments, or construct "X"
> with three arguments. In "unpack< X(A, B, C) >" X does *not* get called
> with three arguments. It gets called like "X( A(_0), A(_1), A(_2), ...B,
> C )", where _0, _1 are the child nodes of the current expression. This
> will confuse anyone familiar with Proto. I'd like to replace this with
> something a little more transparent.
Ok, i put to together an alternative version. This hooks onto the already in
place transform mechanism and works like this:
Whenever the first argument to a transform is proto::vararg<Fun> it expands
the child expressions and applies the Fun transform before the actual
transform gets called, example:
struct test
: proto::when<
proto::function<vararg<proto::_> >
, foo(vararg<proto::_>)
>
{};
this will call foo(a0, a1 ... aN) where aX are the children of the function
expressions. Note that you can replace proto::_ by any transform you like.
Thus making the call look like:
foo(Fun(a0), Fun(a1), Fun(a2) ...)
Additionally, you can add whatever arguments you like to the transform.
I think this comes closer to what the user expects, and is more transparent.
The implementation can be found at:
http://github.com/sithhell/boosties/blob/master/proto/boost/proto/transform/when_vararg.hpp
A testcase can be found at:
http://github.com/sithhell/boosties/blob/master/proto/libs/proto/test/when_vararg.cpp
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