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<td class="header-group page-location"><a href="../refmanual.html" class="navigation-link">Front Page</a> / <a href="./metafunctions.html" class="navigation-link">Metafunctions</a> / <a href="./metafunctions-concepts.html" class="navigation-link">Concepts</a> / <a href="./metafunction-class.html" class="navigation-link">Metafunction Class</a></td>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./metafunctions-concepts.html#id1513">Metafunction Class</a></h1>
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<div class="section" id="summary">
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<h3>Summary</h3>
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<p>A <em>metafunction class</em> is a certain form of metafunction representation
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that enables higher-order metaprogramming. More precisely, it's a class
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with a publicly-accessible nested <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction.html">Metafunction</a> called <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a></span></tt>.
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Correspondingly, a metafunction class invocation is defined as invocation
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of its nested <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a></span></tt> metafunction.</p>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-requirements" name="expression-requirements">Expression requirements</a></h3>
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<p>In the following table and subsequent specifications, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f</span></tt> is a <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction-class.html">Metafunction Class</a>.</p>
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<tr><th class="head">Expression</th>
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<th class="head">Type</th>
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>::type</span></tt></td>
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<td>Any type</td>
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<td>Unspecified.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a><>::type</span></tt></td>
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<td>Any type</td>
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<td>Unspecified.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a><a1,...an>::type</span></tt></td>
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<td>Any type</td>
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<td>Unspecified.</td>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3>
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typedef f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>::type x;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Precondition:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f</span></tt> is a nullary <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction-class.html">Metafunction Class</a>; <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>::type</span></tt> is a <em>type-name</em>.</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is the result of the metafunction class invocation.</td>
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typedef f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a><>::type x;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Precondition:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f</span></tt> is a nullary <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction-class.html">Metafunction Class</a>; <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a><>::type</span></tt> is a <em>type-name</em>.</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is the result of the metafunction class invocation.</td>
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typedef f::<a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a><a1,<em>...</em>a<em>n</em>>::type x;
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Precondition:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">f</span></tt> is an <em>n</em>-ary metafunction class; <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a></span></tt> is a <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction.html">Metafunction</a>.</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt> is the result of the metafunction class
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invocation with the actual arguments <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">a1</span></tt>,... <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">an</span></tt>.</td>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#models" name="models">Models</a></h3>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="./always.html">always</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="./arg.html">arg</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="./quote.html">quote</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="./numeric-cast.html">numeric_cast</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="./unpack-args.html">unpack_args</a></li>
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<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3>
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<p><a class="reference internal" href="./metafunctions.html">Metafunctions</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./metafunction.html">Metafunction</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./lambda-expression.html">Lambda Expression</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./invocation.html">invocation</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./apply-wrap.html">apply_wrap</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./bind.html">bind</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./quote.html">quote</a></p>
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