Created on 2015-11-05.00:00:00 last changed 89 months ago
Proposed resolution:
This wording is relative to N4567.
Revise [meta.logical] as follows:
template<class... B> struct conjunction : see below { };[…]
-3- The BaseCharacteristic of a specialization conjunction<B1, ..., BN> is the first type Bi in the list true_type, B1, ..., BN for which Bi::value == false, or if every Bi::value != false, the BaseCharacteristic isBNthe last type in the list. [Note: This means a specialization of conjunction does not necessarily have a BaseCharacteristic of either true_type or false_type. — end note] […]template<class... B> struct disjunction : see below { };[…]
-6- The BaseCharacteristic of a specialization disjunction<B1, ..., BN> is the first type Bi in the list false_type, B1, ..., BN for which Bi::value != false, or if every Bi::value == false, the BaseCharacteristic isBNthe last type in the list. [Note: This means a specialization of disjunction does not necessarily have a BaseCharacteristic of either true_type or false_type. — end note] […]
[ 2016-02, Issues Telecon ]
P0; move to Tentatively Ready.
The conjunction trait in [meta.logical] seems intended to support invocation with zero arguments, e.g. conjunction<>::value, which is likely to be a useful feature. However, the specification doesn't actually make sense in the zero-argument case. See [meta.logical]/p3:
The BaseCharacteristic of a specialization conjunction<B1, …, BN> is the first type B in the list true_type, B1, …, BN for which B::value == false, or if every B::value != false the BaseCharacteristic is BN.
If "B1, ..., BN" is an empty list, then every B::value != false, so the BaseCharacteristic is BN, but there is no BN in this case.
(If LWG concludes that conjunction intentionally requires at least one argument, I would appreciate their confirmation that I can editorially remove the mention of true_type, which seems to have no normative impact outside the zero-argument case.) Similar comments apply to the disjunction trait, and to the corresponding traits in the Fundamentals working paper, see LWG 2558.History | |||
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Date | User | Action | Args |
2017-07-30 20:15:43 | admin | set | status: wp -> c++17 |
2016-03-07 04:11:48 | admin | set | status: ready -> wp |
2016-02-07 20:24:45 | admin | set | messages: + msg7956 |
2016-02-07 20:24:45 | admin | set | status: new -> ready |
2015-12-09 20:35:53 | admin | set | messages: + msg7630 |
2015-11-05 00:00:00 | admin | create |