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| <a name="boost_typetraits.category.value_traits.primary"></a><a class="link" href="primary.html" title="Categorizing a Type"> Categorizing |
| a Type</a> |
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| These traits identify what "kind" of type some type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code> is. These are split into two groups: |
| primary traits which are all mutually exclusive, and composite traits that |
| are compositions of one or more primary traits. |
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| For any given type, exactly one primary type trait will inherit from <a class="link" href="../../reference/integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">true_type</a>, |
| and all the others will inherit from <a class="link" href="../../reference/integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">false_type</a>, |
| in other words these traits are mutually exclusive. |
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| This means that <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../reference/is_integral.html" title="is_integral">is_integral</a><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>::</span><span class="identifier">value</span></code> |
| and <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../reference/is_floating_point.html" title="is_floating_point">is_floating_point</a><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>::</span><span class="identifier">value</span></code> |
| will only ever be true for built-in types; if you want to check for a user-defined |
| class type that behaves "as if" it is an integral or floating |
| point type, then use the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">numeric_limits</span> |
| <span class="keyword">template</span></code> instead. |
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| <span class="bold"><strong>Synopsis:</strong></span> |
| </p> |
| <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_array.html" title="is_array">is_array</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_class.html" title="is_class">is_class</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_complex.html" title="is_complex">is_complex</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_enum.html" title="is_enum">is_enum</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_floating_point.html" title="is_floating_point">is_floating_point</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_function.html" title="is_function">is_function</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_integral.html" title="is_integral">is_integral</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_member_function_pointer.html" title="is_member_function_pointer">is_member_function_pointer</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_member_object_pointer.html" title="is_member_object_pointer">is_member_object_pointer</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_pointer.html" title="is_pointer">is_pointer</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_lvalue_reference.html" title="is_lvalue_reference">is_lvalue_reference</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_rvalue_reference.html" title="is_rvalue_reference">is_rvalue_reference</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_union.html" title="is_union">is_union</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_void.html" title="is_void">is_void</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| The following traits are made up of the union of one or more type categorizations. |
| A type may belong to more than one of these categories, in addition to |
| one of the primary categories. |
| </p> |
| <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_arithmetic.html" title="is_arithmetic">is_arithmetic</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_compound.html" title="is_compound">is_compound</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_fundamental.html" title="is_fundamental">is_fundamental</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_member_pointer.html" title="is_member_pointer">is_member_pointer</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_object.html" title="is_object">is_object</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_reference.html" title="is_reference">is_reference</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| |
| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <span class="keyword">struct</span> <a class="link" href="../../reference/is_scalar.html" title="is_scalar">is_scalar</a><span class="special">;</span> |
| </pre> |
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