How to construct an std::array with index sequence?
The next approach should work for you:
template<typename T, std::size_t N, std::size_t... I>constexpr auto create_array_impl(std::index_sequence<I...>) { return std::array<T, N>{ {I...} };}template<typename T, std::size_t N>constexpr auto create_array() { return create_array_impl<T, N>(std::make_index_sequence<N>{});}
You can create an array like:
constexpr auto array = create_array<std::size_t, 4>();
One can modify the aforementioned solution to add a lambda in the next way:
template<typename T, std::size_t N, typename F, std::size_t... I>constexpr auto create_array_impl(F&& func, std::index_sequence<I...>) { return std::array<T, N>{ {func(I)...} };}template<typename T, std::size_t N, typename F>constexpr auto create_array(F&& func) { return create_array_impl<T, N>(std::forward<F>(func), std::make_index_sequence<N>{});}
And then use:
const auto array = create_array<std::size_t, 4>([](auto e) { return e * e;});
For ar
, here's an approach:
namespace detail { template<typename T, T... Ns> constexpr auto make_iota_array(T const offset, std::integer_sequence<T, Ns...>) noexcept -> std::array<T, sizeof...(Ns)> { return {{(Ns + offset)...}}; }}template<typename T, T N>constexpr auto make_iota_array(T const offset = {}) noexcept { static_assert(N >= T{}, "no negative sizes"); return detail::make_iota_array<T>(offset, std::make_integer_sequence<T, N>{});}// ...auto ar = make_iota_array<int, 10>(99);
For ar2
, here's an approach:
namespace detail { template<typename T, typename F, std::size_t... Is> constexpr auto generate_array(F& f, std::index_sequence<Is...>) -> std::array<T, sizeof...(Is)> { return {{f(std::integral_constant<std::size_t, Is>{})...}}; }}template<typename T, std::size_t N, typename F>constexpr auto generate_array(F f) { return detail::generate_array<T>(f, std::make_index_sequence<N>{});}// ...auto ar2 = generate_array<C, 3>([](auto i) -> C { return {i, i * 1.12f}; });
(noexcept
is more-or-less optional here IMO, and omitted here for brevity, but is present in the demos.)
N.b. both are fully constexpr
, but since generate_array
is likely to be used with lambdas it won't be constexpr
in practice until C++17 (demo). Also n.b. generate_array
will work with non-copyable/non-movable types in C++17 due to guaranteed copy elision (demo).