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### 1116. Literal constructors for tuple

Section: 22.4.4 [tuple.tuple] Status: Resolved Submitter: Alisdair Meredith Opened: 2009-05-23 Last modified: 2016-01-28

Priority: Not Prioritized

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Discussion:

It is not currently possible to construct `tuple` literal values, even if the elements are all literal types. This is because parameters are passed to constructor by reference.

An alternative would be to pass all constructor arguments by value, where it is known that *all* elements are literal types. This can be determined with concepts, although note that the negative constraint really requires factoring out a separate concept, as there is no way to provide an 'any of these fails' constraint inline.

Note that we will have similar issues with `pair` (and `tuple` constructors from `pair`) although I am steering clear of that class while other constructor-related issues settle.

[ 2009-10 Santa Cruz: ]

> NAD Editorial Resolved. Solved by N2994.

Proposed resolution:

Ammend the tuple class template declaration in 22.4.4 [tuple.tuple] as follows

> Add the following concept:

> >     auto concept AllLiteral< typename ... Types > {
> >       requires LiteralType<Types>...;
> >     }

> ammend the constructor

> >     template <class... UTypes>
> >       requires AllLiteral<Types...>
> >             && Constructible<Types, UTypes>...
> >       explicit tuple(UTypes...);

> >     template <class... UTypes>
> >       requires !AllLiteral<Types...>
> >             && Constructible<Types, UTypes&&>...
> >       explicit tuple(UTypes&&...);

> ammend the constructor

> >     template <class... UTypes>
> >       requires AllLiteral<Types...>
> >             && Constructible<Types, UTypes>...
> >       tuple(tuple<UTypes...>);

> >     template <class... UTypes>
> >       requires !AllLiteral<Types...>
> >             && Constructible<Types, const UTypes&>...
> >       tuple(const tuple<UTypes...>&);

Update the same signatures in 22.4.4.1 [tuple.cnstr], paras 3 and 5.