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128 <a name="details" id="details"></a><h2 class="groupheader">Description</h2>
129 <div class="textblock"><h3>template<typename T, typename U, optional when-based enabler><br />
130 struct boost::hana::common< T, U, enabler ></h3>
132 <p>Metafunction returning the common data type between two data types. </p>
133 <p><code>common</code> is a natural extension of the <code>std::common_type</code> metafunction to data types. Given two data types <code>T</code> and <code>U</code>, we say that they share a common type <code>C</code> if both objects of data type <code>T</code> and objects of data type <code>U</code> may be converted (using <code>to</code>) to an object of data type <code>C</code>, and if that conversion is equality preserving. In other words, this means that for any objects <code>t1, t2</code> of data type <code>T</code> and <code>u1, u2</code> of data type <code>U</code>, the following law is satisfied: </p><div class="fragment"><div class="line">to<C>(t1) == to<C>(t2) if and only if t1 == t2</div><div class="line"><a class="code" href="group__group-core.html#gadc70755c1d059139297814fb3bfeb91e">to</a><C>(u1) == <a class="code" href="group__group-core.html#gadc70755c1d059139297814fb3bfeb91e">to</a><C>(u2) if and only if u1 == u2</div></div><!-- fragment --><p>The role of <code>common</code> is to provide an alias to such a <code>C</code> if it exists. In other words, if <code>T</code> and <code>U</code> have a common data type <code>C</code>, <code>common<T, U>::type</code> is an alias to <code>C</code>. Otherwise, <code>common<T, U></code> has no nested <code>type</code> and can be used in dependent contexts to exploit SFINAE. By default, the exact steps followed by <code>common</code> to determine the common type <code>C</code> of <code>T</code> and <code>U</code> are</p><ol type="1">
134 <li>If <code>T</code> and <code>U</code> are the same, then <code>C</code> is <code>T</code>.</li>
135 <li>Otherwise, if <code>true ? std::declval<T>() : std::declval<U>()</code> is well-formed, then <code>C</code> is the type of this expression after using <code>std::decay</code> on it. This is exactly the type that would have been returned by <code>std::common_type</code>, except that custom specializations of <code>std::common_type</code> are not taken into account.</li>
136 <li>Otherwise, no common data type is detected and <code>common<T, U></code> does not have a nested <code>type</code> alias, unless it is specialized explicitly.</li>
138 <p>As point 3 suggests, it is also possible (and sometimes necessary) to specialize <code>common</code> in the <code><a class="el" href="namespaceboost_1_1hana.html" title="Namespace containing everything in the library. ">boost::hana</a></code> namespace for pairs of custom data types when the default behavior of <code>common</code> is not sufficient. Note that <code>when</code>-based specialization is supported when specializing <code>common</code> in the <code><a class="el" href="namespaceboost_1_1hana.html" title="Namespace containing everything in the library. ">boost::hana</a></code> namespace.</p>
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140 <h4>Rationale for requiring the conversion to be equality-preserving</h4>
141 <p>This decision is aligned with a proposed concept design for the standard library (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3351.pdf">N3351</a>). Also, if we did not require this, then all data types would trivially share the common data type <code>void</code>, since all objects can be converted to it. </p>
144 <div class="fragment"><div class="line"><span class="comment">// Copyright Louis Dionne 2013-2017</span></div><div class="line"><span class="comment">// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.</span></div><div class="line"><span class="comment">// (See accompanying file LICENSE.md or copy at http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)</span></div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="preprocessor">#include <<a class="code" href="core_2common_8hpp.html">boost/hana/core/common.hpp</a>></span></div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="preprocessor">#include <type_traits></span></div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">namespace </span>hana = <a class="code" href="namespaceboost_1_1hana.html">boost::hana</a>;</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">struct </span>Person { };</div><div class="line"><span class="keyword">struct </span>Employee : Person { };</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line">static_assert(std::is_same<hana::common<int, float>::type, <span class="keywordtype">float</span>>{}, <span class="stringliteral">""</span>);</div><div class="line">static_assert(std::is_same<hana::common<Person, Employee>::type, Person>{}, <span class="stringliteral">""</span>);</div><div class="line"></div><div class="line"><span class="keywordtype">int</span> main() { }</div></div><!-- fragment --> </div></div><!-- contents -->
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