October 21th Wednesday

  I  learnt how to impelement a simple functional object in C++.

 

template <typename R, typename Arg> class invoker_base {
public:
  virtual R operator()(Arg arg)=0;
};

 

template <typename R, typename Arg> class function_ptr_invoker 
  : public invoker_base<R,Arg> {
  R (*func_)(Arg);
public:
  function_ptr_invoker(R (*func)(Arg)):func_(func) {}

  R operator()(Arg arg) {
    return (func_)(arg);
  }
};

template <typename R, typename Arg, typename T> 
class member_ptr_invoker : 
  public invoker_base<R,Arg> {
  R (T::*func_)(Arg);
  T* t_;
public:
  member_ptr_invoker(R (T::*func)(Arg),T* t)
    :func_(func),t_(t) {}

  R operator()(Arg arg) {
    return (t_->*func_)(arg);
  }
};

template <typename R, typename Arg, typename T> 
class function_object_invoker : 
  public invoker_base<R,Arg> {
  T t_;
public:
  function_object_invoker(T t):t_(t) {}

  R operator()(Arg arg) {
    return t_(arg);
  }
};

template <typename R, typename Arg> class function1 {
  invoker_base<R,Arg>* invoker_;
public:
  function1(R (*func)(Arg)) : 
  invoker_(new function_ptr_invoker<R,Arg>(func)) {}
 
  template <typename T> function1(R (T::*func)(Arg),T* p) : 
    invoker_(new member_ptr_invoker<R,Arg,T>(func,p)) {}

  template <typename T> function1(T t) : 
    invoker_(new function_object_invoker<R,Arg,T>(t)) {}

  R operator()(Arg arg) {
    return (*invoker_)(arg);
  }

  ~function1() {
    delete invoker_;
  }
};

  OK.  let's try it.
bool some_function(const std::string& s) {
  std::cout << s << " This is really neat/n";
  return true;
}

class some_class {
public:
  bool some_function(const std::string& s) {
    std::cout << s << " This is also quite nice/n";
    return true;
  }
};

class some_function_object {
public:
  bool operator()(const std::string& s) {
    std::cout << s << 
      " This should work, too, in a flexible solution/n";
    return true;
  }
};

int main() {
  function1<bool,const std::string&> f1(&some_function);
  f1(std::string("Hello"));

  some_class s;
  function1<bool,const std::string&> 
    f2(&some_class::some_function,&s);
 
  f2(std::string("Hello"));

  function1<bool,const std::string&>
    f3(boost::bind(&some_class::some_function,&s,_1));
 
  f3(std::string("Hello"));

  some_function_object fso;
  function1<bool,const std::string&> 
    f4(fso);
  f4(std::string("Hello"));
}

  The example is from the boost library.  ^_^