enable if all enable if any

Motivational example

When you have a variadic template pack in the template parameters list, like in the following code snippet:

template<typename ...Args> void func(Args &&...args) { //... };

The standard library (prior to C++17) offers no direct way to write enable_if to impose SFINAE constraints on all of the parameters in Args or any of the parameters in Args. C++17 offers std::conjunction and std::disjunction which solve this problem. For example:

/// C++17: SFINAE constraints on all of the parameters in Args.
template<typename ...Args,
         std::enable_if_t<std::conjunction_v<custom_conditions_v<Args>...>>* = nullptr>
void func(Args &&...args) { //... };

/// C++17: SFINAE constraints on any of the parameters in Args.
template<typename ...Args,
         std::enable_if_t<std::disjunction_v<custom_conditions_v<Args>...>>* = nullptr>
void func(Args &&...args) { //... };

If you do not have C++17 available, there are several solutions to achieve these. One of them is to use a base-case class and partial specializations, as demonstrated in answers of this question.

Alternatively, one may also implement by hand the behavior of std::conjunction and std::disjunction in a rather straight-forward way. In the following example I’ll demonstrate the implementations and combine them with std::enable_if to produce two alias: enable_if_all and enable_if_any, which do exactly what they are supposed to semantically. This may provide a more scalable solution.

Implementation of enable_if_all and enable_if_any

First let’s emulate std::conjunction and std::disjunction using customized seq_and and seq_or respectively:

/// Helper for prior to C++14.
template<bool B, class T, class F >
using conditional_t = typename std::conditional<B,T,F>::type;

/// Emulate C++17 std::conjunction.
template<bool...> struct seq_or: std::false_type {};
template<bool...> struct seq_and: std::true_type {};

template<bool B1, bool... Bs>
struct seq_or<B1,Bs...>: 
  conditional_t<B1,std::true_type,seq_or<Bs...>> {};

template<bool B1, bool... Bs>
struct seq_and<B1,Bs...>:
  conditional_t<B1,seq_and<Bs...>,std::false_type> {};

Then the implementation is quite straight-forward:

template<bool... Bs>
using enable_if_any = std::enable_if<seq_or<Bs...>::value>;

template<bool... Bs>
using enable_if_all = std::enable_if<seq_and<Bs...>::value>;

Eventually some helpers:

template<bool... Bs>
using enable_if_any_t = typename enable_if_any<Bs...>::type;

template<bool... Bs>
using enable_if_all_t = typename enable_if_all<Bs...>::type;

Usage

The usage is also straight-forward:

/// SFINAE constraints on all of the parameters in Args.
template<typename ...Args,
         enable_if_all_t<custom_conditions_v<Args>...>* = nullptr>
void func(Args &&...args) { //... };

/// SFINAE constraints on any of the parameters in Args.
template<typename ...Args,
         enable_if_any_t<custom_conditions_v<Args>...>* = nullptr>
void func(Args &&...args) { //... };

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