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- /// @file
- // Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Vladimir Batov.
- // Use, modification and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License,
- // Version 1.0. See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.
- #ifndef BOOST_MAKE_DEFAULT_HPP
- #define BOOST_MAKE_DEFAULT_HPP
- namespace boost
- {
- /// @details A considerable number of libraries require an instance of a class
- /// provided (storage created and initialized). For example,
- /// @code
- /// Type result;
- /// ...
- /// istream >> result;
- /// @endcode
- /// In generic code that results in the Default Constructibility requirement imposed
- /// on every type 'Type' to be used with the respective code. Inevitably, that requirement
- /// a) either excludes all the classes that for various reasons do not meet that requirement or
- /// b) imposes certain (not necessarily desirable) design/implementation onto respective classes.
- ///
- /// Deployment of boost::make_default() eliminates the Default Constructibility requirement with
- /// @code
- /// Type result = boost::make_default<Type>();
- /// ...
- /// istream >> result;
- /// @endcode
- /// Classes with no default constructor can now be included via a boost::make_default() specialization:
- /// @code
- /// namespace boost
- /// {
- /// template<> inline Type make_default<Type>() { return Type(parameters); }
- /// }
- /// @endcode
- template<typename T> T make_default() { return T(); }
- }
- #endif // BOOST_MAKE_DEFAULT_HPP
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