On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:19 PM Frederick Virchanza Gotham
<cauldwell.thomas_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> template<class... Bases>
> auto close(void)
> {
> if constexpr (requires { &Nth< 0u,Bases...>::close; }) return &Nth< 0u,Bases...>::close;
>
> else if constexpr (requires { &Nth< 1u,Bases...>::close; }) return &Nth< 1u,Bases...>::close;
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As a stepping-stone to making something like the above possible, what
if we could give arbitrary words (or arbitrary identifiers) as
template parameters? Something like as follows:

        template<identifier K, class T>
        constexpr auto GetMemberAddress(T const &t)
        {
            return &T::K;
        }

So then we could do:

        #include <string>

        int main(void)
        {
            std::string str;

           auto f = GetMemberAddress<"size">(str);

           return (str.*f)();
        }

Has there ever been any talk about allowing arbitrary
strings/words/identifiers as template parameters?