Inheriting a templated conversion operator
Is there a working alternative in C++20 to inherit and expose a templated conversion function?
I don't know a way to directly expose it, through using
.
But you can wrap it in a derived operator
struct derived: private base {
template <typename R, typename... Args>
constexpr operator function_type<R, Args...>() const noexcept {
return base::operator function_type<R, Args...>();
}
};
GCC support this: [demo]
template <class R, class... Args>
using function_type = R(*)(Args...);
struct base {
template <class R, class... Args>
constexpr operator function_type<R, Args...>() const noexcept {
return nullptr;
}
};
struct derived: private base {
using base::operator function_type<auto, auto...>; // No error!
};
int main (){
derived d;
static_cast <int(*)(int)>(d);
}
But I think this is an extension to the language that may come from the concept-TS.