Using a Function Object Consumer
suggest changeWe can provide a consumer that will be called with the multiple relevant values:
template <class F>
void foo(int a, int b, F consumer) {
consumer(a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b);
}
// use is simple... ignoring some results is possible as well
foo(5, 12, [](int sum, int , int , int ){
std::cout << "sum is " << sum << '\n';
});
This is known as “continuation passing style”.
You can adapt a function returning a tuple into a continuation passing style function via:
template<class Tuple>
struct continuation {
Tuple t;
template<class F>
decltype(auto) operator->*(F&& f)&&{
return std::apply( std::forward<F>(f), std::move(t) );
}
};
std::tuple<int,int,int,int> foo(int a, int b);
continuation(foo(5,12))->*[](int sum, auto&&...) {
std::cout << "sum is " << sum << '\n';
};
with more complex versions being writable in C++14 or C++11.
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