Having fun with boost::hana. I wish to check for a specific nested type that acts like a tag in another type, so I borrow from hana::when_valid example and defined a class is_S along with its SFINAE-enabled specialization:
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/hana/core/when.hpp>
namespace hana = boost::hana;
#define V(x) std::cout << x << std::endl
struct S_tag { };
struct S {
using tag = S_tag;
};
struct T {
using tag = int;
};
template< typename T, typename = hana::when< true > >
struct is_S {
static constexpr bool value = false;
};
template< typename T >
struct is_S< T, hana::when_valid< typename T::tag > > {
static constexpr bool value = std::is_same<
typename T::tag, S_tag >::value;
};
int main () {
std::cout << "is_S ( S { }) = "; V ((is_S< S >::value));
std::cout << "is_S ( T { }) = "; V ((is_S< T >::value));
std::cout << "is_S (float { }) = "; V ((is_S< float >::value));
return 0;
}
This prints:
$ clang++ -std=c++1z sfinae.cpp && ./a.out | c++filt
is_S ( S { }) = 1
is_S ( T { }) = 0
is_S (float { }) = 0
Is there a simpler/shorter/more succinct way of writing the same check, in keeping with value-type computation of hana philosophy?