I want to increment / decrement a std::variant
's type alternative, essentially like so:
using var_t = std::variant</*...*/>;
var_t var;
var.emplace< (var.index()+1) % std::variant_size<var_t> >(); // "increment" case, wrapping for good measure
The problem here is that while emplace
expects what clang's error message calls an "explicitly-specified argument", index
does not appear to be constexpr
.
The obvious alternative would be something like this:
switch(var.index()){
0:
var.emplace<1>();
break;
1:
var.emplace<2>();
break;
// ...
variant_size<var_t>-1:
var.emplace<0>();
}
But that's what I personally would call "extremely ugly" and "a massive pain in the behind to maintain" (especially since I'd have to maintain two almost-copies of those blocks off-by-two for both incrementing and decrementing).
Is there a better / "correct" way of doing this?
In case that information is important in any way, I'm targeting C++20
on clang
with libstdc++
.
As usual, std::index_sequence
might help:
#include <variant>
template <typename... Ts, std::size_t... Is>
void next(std::variant<Ts...>& v, std::index_sequence<Is...>)
{
using Func = void (*)(std::variant<Ts...>&);
Func funcs[] = {
+[](std::variant<Ts...>& v){ v.template emplace<(Is + 1) % sizeof...(Is)>(); }...
};
funcs[v.index()](v);
}
template <typename... Ts>
void next(std::variant<Ts...>& v)
{
next(v, std::make_index_sequence<sizeof...(Ts)>());
}
Note: for prev
, Is + 1
should be replaced by Is + sizeof...(Is) - 1
.