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A cool new idiom for a decreasing tuple
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template<typename T, typename... Ts> | |
struct Tuple | |
{ | |
T first; | |
Tuple<Ts...> second{}; | |
bool first_removed = false; | |
auto remove_first() | |
{ | |
if(first_removed == false) | |
{ | |
first_removed = true; | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
second.remove_first(); | |
} | |
} | |
template<auto T> | |
auto get() | |
{ | |
if constexpr(T == 0 && first_removed == false) | |
{ | |
return first; | |
} | |
else if constexpr(T == 0 && first_removed == true) | |
{ | |
return second.get<T>(); | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
return second.get<T - 1>(); | |
} | |
} | |
}; | |
template<typename T> | |
struct Tuple<T> | |
{ | |
T first; | |
bool first_removed = false; | |
auto remove_first() | |
{ | |
first_removed = true; | |
} | |
template<auto T> | |
auto get() | |
{ | |
if(T == 0 && first_removed == false) | |
{ | |
return first; | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
// can't do anything, the user has entered in wrong input. | |
} | |
} | |
}; |
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