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<h1 class="title"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference</span></tt></h1>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">abstract:</th><td class="field-body">Provides the capability to deduce the referent types of
pointers, smart pointers and iterators in generic code.</td>
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<h1>Overview</h1>
<p>Have you ever wanted to write a generic function that can operate
on any kind of dereferenceable object? If you have, you've
probably run into the problem of how to determine the type that the
object "points at":</p>
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template <class Dereferenceable>
void f(Dereferenceable p)
{
<em>what-goes-here?</em> value = *p;
...
}
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<h2><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee</span></tt></h2>
<p>It turns out to be impossible to come up with a fully-general
algorithm to do determine <em>what-goes-here</em> directly, but it is
possible to require that <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee<Dereferenceable>::type</span></tt> is
correct. Naturally, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee</span></tt> has the same difficulty: it can't
determine the appropriate <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">::type</span></tt> reliably for all
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Dereferenceable</span></tt>s, but it makes very good guesses (it works
for all pointers, standard and boost smart pointers, and
iterators), and when it guesses wrongly, it can be specialized as
necessary:</p>
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namespace boost
{
template <class T>
struct pointee<third_party_lib::smart_pointer<T> >
{
typedef T type;
};
}
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<h2><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference</span></tt></h2>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference<T>::type</span></tt> is rather more specialized than
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee</span></tt>, and is meant to be used to forward the result of
dereferencing an object of its argument type. Most dereferenceable
types just return a reference to their pointee, but some return
proxy references or return the pointee by value. When that
information is needed, call on <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Both of these templates are essential to the correct functioning of
<a class="reference external" href="indirect_iterator.html"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_iterator</span></tt></a>.</p>
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<h1>Reference</h1>
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<h2><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee</span></tt></h2>
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template <class Dereferenceable>
struct pointee
{
typedef /* see below */ type;
};
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is well-formed. If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">++x</span></tt> is ill-formed it shall neither be
ambiguous nor shall it violate access control, and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Dereferenceable::element_type</span></tt> shall be an accessible type.
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<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">type</span></tt> is determined according to the following algorithm, where
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if ( ++x is ill-formed )
{
return ``Dereferenceable::element_type``
}
else if (``*x`` is a mutable reference to
std::iterator_traits<Dereferenceable>::value_type)
{
return iterator_traits<Dereferenceable>::value_type
}
else
{
return iterator_traits<Dereferenceable>::value_type const
}
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<h2><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference</span></tt></h2>
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template <class Dereferenceable>
struct indirect_reference
{
typedef /* see below */ type;
};
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is well-formed. If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">++x</span></tt> is ill-formed it shall neither be
ambiguous nor shall it violate access control, and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pointee<Dereferenceable>::type&</span></tt> shall be well-formed.
Otherwise <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">iterator_traits<Dereferenceable>::reference</span></tt> shall
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explicit or partial specializations of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_reference</span></tt>]</td>
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<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">type</span></tt> is determined according to the following algorithm, where
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is an object of type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Dereferenceable</span></tt>:</p>
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if ( ++x is ill-formed )
return ``pointee<Dereferenceable>::type&``
else
std::iterator_traits<Dereferenceable>::reference
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