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| 17 | <div class="section" id="placeholder-expression"> |
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| 18 | <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./metafunctions-concepts.html#id441" name="placeholder-expression">Placeholder Expression</a></h1> |
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| 20 | <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3> |
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| 21 | <p>A <a class="reference" href="./placeholder-expression.html">Placeholder Expression</a> is a type that is either a <a class="reference" href="./placeholders.html">placeholder</a> or a class |
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| 22 | template specialization with at least one argument that itself is a |
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| 23 | <a class="reference" href="./placeholder-expression.html">Placeholder Expression</a>.</p> |
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| 26 | <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-requirements" name="expression-requirements">Expression requirements</a></h3> |
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| 27 | <p>If <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X</span></tt> is a class template, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">a1</span></tt>,... <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">an</span></tt> are arbitrary types, then |
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| 28 | <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X<a1,...,an></span></tt> is a <a class="reference" href="./placeholder-expression.html">Placeholder Expression</a> if and only if all of the following |
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| 29 | conditions hold:</p> |
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| 31 | <li>At least one of the template arguments <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">a1</span></tt>,... <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">an</span></tt> is a <a class="reference" href="./placeholders.html">placeholder</a> |
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| 32 | or a <a class="reference" href="./placeholder-expression.html">Placeholder Expression</a>.</li> |
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| 33 | <li>All of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X</span></tt>'s template parameters, including the default ones, are types.</li> |
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| 34 | <li>The number of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X</span></tt>'s template parameters, including the default ones, is |
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| 35 | less or equal to the value of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./limit-metafunction-arity.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_METAFUNCTION_ARITY</a></span></tt> |
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| 36 | <a class="reference" href="./configuration.html">configuration macro</a>.</li> |
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| 48 | <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3> |
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| 49 | <p><a class="reference" href="./lambda-expression.html">Lambda Expression</a>, <a class="reference" href="./placeholders.html">Placeholders</a>, <a class="reference" href="./metafunctions.html">Metafunctions</a>, <a class="refentry reference" href="./apply.html"><tt class="refentry literal"><span class="pre">apply</span></tt></a>, <a class="refentry reference" href="./lambda.html"><tt class="refentry literal"><span class="pre">lambda</span></tt></a></p> |
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