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</pre> </div> <div class="section" id="id1182"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3> <p>Each <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./numeric-cast.html" class="identifier">numeric_cast</a></span></tt> specialization is a user-specialized unary <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction-class.html">Metafunction Class</a> providing a conversion between two numeric types.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="id1183"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#header" name="header">Header</a></h3> <pre class="literal-block"> #include <<a href="../../../../boost/mpl/numeric_cast.hpp" class="header">boost/mpl/numeric_cast.hpp</a>> </pre> </div> <div class="section" id="id1184"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#parameters" name="parameters">Parameters</a></h3> <table border="1" class="docutils table"> <colgroup> <col width="17%" /> <col width="30%" /> <col width="53%" /> </colgroup> <thead valign="bottom"> <tr><th class="head">Parameter</th> <th class="head">Requirement</th> <th class="head">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">SourceTag</span></tt></td> <td><a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a></td> <td>A tag for the conversion's source type.</td> </tr> <tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">TargetTag</span></tt></td> <td><a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a></td> <td>A tag for the conversion's destination type.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="section" id="id1185"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3> <p>If <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt> are two numeric types, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is convertible to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt>, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x_tag</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">y_tag</span></tt> are the types' corresponding <a class="reference internal" href="./integral-constant.html">Integral Constant</a> tags:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> typedef <a href="./apply-wrap.html" class="identifier">apply_wrap</a><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">2</span></tt>< <a href="./numeric-cast.html" class="identifier">numeric_cast</a><x_tag,y_tag>,x >::type r; </pre> <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="field-name" /> <col class="field-body" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body">A type.</td> </tr> <tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">r</span></tt> is a value of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> converted to the type of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">y</span></tt>.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="section" id="id1186"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#complexity" name="complexity">Complexity</a></h3> <p>Unspecified.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="id1187"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#example" name="example">Example</a></h3> <pre class="literal-block"> struct complex_tag : <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><10> {}; template< typename Re, typename Im > struct complex { typedef complex_tag tag; typedef complex type; typedef Re real; typedef Im imag; }; template< typename C > struct real : C::real {}; template< typename C > struct imag : C::imag {}; namespace boost { namespace mpl { template<> struct <a href="./numeric-cast.html" class="identifier">numeric_cast</a>< integral_c_tag,complex_tag > { template< typename N > struct <a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a> : complex< N, <a href="./integral-c.html" class="identifier">integral_c</a>< typename N::<a href="./value-type.html" class="identifier">value_type</a>, 0 > > { }; }; template<> struct plus_impl< complex_tag,complex_tag > { template< typename N1, typename N2 > struct <a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a> : complex< <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>< typename N1::real, typename N2::real > , <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>< typename N1::imag, typename N2::imag > > { }; }; }} typedef <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><2> i; typedef complex< <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><5>, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><-1> > c1; typedef complex< <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><-5>, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a><1> > c2; typedef <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a><c1,i> r4; <a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( real<r4>::value, ==, 7 ); <a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( imag<r4>::value, ==, -1 ); typedef <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a><i,c2> r5; <a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( real<r5>::value, ==, -3 ); <a href="./assert-relation.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION</a>( imag<r5>::value, ==, 1 ); </pre> </div> <div class="section" id="id1188"> <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3> <p><a class="reference internal" href="./metafunctions.html">Metafunctions</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./numeric-metafunction.html">Numeric Metafunction</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./plus.html">plus</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./minus.html">minus</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./times.html">times</a></p> <!-- Metafunctions/Miscellaneous//min |80 --> </div> </div> <div class="footer-separator"></div> <table class="footer"><tr class="footer"><td class="header-group navigation-bar"><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./inherit-linearly.html" class="navigation-link">Prev</a> <a href="./min.html" class="navigation-link">Next</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./inherit-linearly.html" class="navigation-link">Back</a> <a href="./min.html" class="navigation-link">Along</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./miscellaneous.html" class="navigation-link">Up</a> <a href="../refmanual.html" class="navigation-link">Home</a></span><span class="navigation-group-separator"> | </span><span class="navigation-group"><a href="./refmanual_toc.html" class="navigation-link">Full TOC</a></span></td> <td><div class="copyright-footer"><div class="copyright">Copyright © 2001-2009 Aleksey Gurtovoy and David Abrahams</div> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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