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Hi,

I am a bit new when it comes to C++ and I wasnt sure how to go about
doing this. How does one compute values at compile which can be
plugged into a static const value using a template. I remember seeing
in a book I no longer have some method for doing this. For example the
book gives a method for computing at compile time the value of
Fibonacci sequence where the value is generated by the compiler.
Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced the book.

Thanks in advance,

Carter.

Carter wrote:
> I am a bit new when it comes to C++ and I wasnt sure how to go about
> doing this. How does one compute values at compile which can be [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming

There's an example for compile-time factorial computation.

Cheers!
SG

On Mar 5, 12:13*am, Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> Carter wrote:
> > I am a bit new when it comes to C++ and I wasnt sure how to go about
> > doing this. How does one compute values at compile which can be
> > plugged into a static const value using a template. I remember seeing
> > in a book I no longer have some method for doing this. For example the
> > book gives a method for computing at compile time the value of
> > Fibonacci sequence where the value is generated by the compiler.
> > Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced the book.
>
> See C++ Template Metaprogramming, by Abrahams and Gurtovoy. *Basically,
> you just define a template to instantiate itself recursively, and
> specialize for the base case.

Thanks both.