An attempt to expand the elements of a C++ container into variadic function arguments

main.cpp

// Example program
#include <cstdarg>
#include <cstdio>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <iostream>
#include <list>

// a function that takes n integers and calculate their sum
// 取n个整数并且求和
int sum1(int n, ...) {
  int s = 0;
  va_list valist;
  va_start(valist, n);
  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    s += va_arg(valist, int);
  }
  va_end(valist);
  return s;
}

const int MaxN = 10;

// 如果元素的数目达到了MaxN，报错
template<int cnt>
std::enable_if_t<cnt == MaxN, int>
translate(...) {
  throw std::runtime_error("The number of elements in the container must be less than MaxN.");
}

// 从container一个个元素取出来放到args里面。递归，每次取一个。
template<int cnt, typename T, typename ... ArgT>
std::enable_if_t<cnt < MaxN, int>
translate(T&& left, T&& right, ArgT&& ... args) {
  if (left == right) {
    // 如果全取出来，传到sum1
    return sum1(cnt, std::forward<ArgT>(args) ...);
  }
  auto next = *left;
  return translate<cnt + 1>(std::forward<T>(++left), std::forward<T>(right), std::forward<ArgT>(args) ..., next);
}

// calculate the sum of the elements in the container `any`, assuming the element type is int.
// 计算一个container里面所有元素的和，这里默认都是int
template<typename T>
int sum2(T&& any) {
  return translate<0>(any.begin(), any.end());
}

int main()
{
  std::cout << sum1(3, 1, 2, 3) << std::endl; // 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
  std::cout << sum2(std::list<int>{1, 2, 3}) << std::endl;
}