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1 // Copyright 2023 The Abseil Authors.
2 //
3 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
4 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
5 // You may obtain a copy of the License at
6 //
7 //      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
8 //
9 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
10 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
11 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
12 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
13 // limitations under the License.
14 //
15 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
16 // File: overload.h
17 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 //
19 // `absl::Overload` is a functor that provides overloads based on the functors
20 // with which it is created. This can, for example, be used to locally define an
21 // anonymous visitor type for `std::visit` inside a function using lambdas.
22 //
23 // Before using this function, consider whether named function overloads would
24 // be a better design.
25 //
26 // Example:
27 //
28 //     std::variant<std::string, int32_t, int64_t> v(int32_t{1});
29 //     const size_t result =
30 //         std::visit(absl::Overload{
31 //                        [](const std::string& s) { return s.size(); },
32 //                        [](const auto& s) { return sizeof(s); },
33 //                    },
34 //                    v);
35 //     assert(result == 4);
36 //
37 
38 #ifndef ABSL_FUNCTIONAL_OVERLOAD_H_
39 #define ABSL_FUNCTIONAL_OVERLOAD_H_
40 
41 #include "absl/base/config.h"
42 #include "absl/meta/type_traits.h"
43 
44 namespace absl {
45 ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
46 
47 template <typename... T>
48 struct Overload final : T... {
49   using T::operator()...;
50 
51   // For historical reasons we want to support use that looks like a function
52   // call:
53   //
54   //     absl::Overload(lambda_1, lambda_2)
55   //
56   // This works automatically in C++20 because we have support for parenthesized
57   // aggregate initialization. Before then we must provide a constructor that
58   // makes this work.
59   //
60   constexpr explicit Overload(T... ts) : T(std::move(ts))... {}
61 };
62 
63 // Before C++20, which added support for CTAD for aggregate types, we must also
64 // teach the compiler how to deduce the template arguments for Overload.
65 //
66 template <typename... T>
67 Overload(T...) -> Overload<T...>;
68 
69 ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
70 }  // namespace absl
71 
72 #endif  // ABSL_FUNCTIONAL_OVERLOAD_H_
73