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# BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF

### Synopsis

    #define BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(name) \
        unspecified token sequence \
    /**/

### Description

Expands into a definition of a boolean unary Metafunction `has_name` such that for any type `x` `has_name<x>::value == true` if and only if `x` is a class type and has a nested type memeber `x::name`.

On the deficient compilers not capabale of performing the detection, `has_name<x>::value` always returns `false`. A boolean configuraion macro, BOOST_MPL_CFG_NO_HAS_XXX, is provided to signal or override the "deficient" status of a particular compiler.

[Note: BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF is a simplified front end to the BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_NAMED_DEF introspection macro — end note]

### Header

    #include <boost/mpl/has_xxx.hpp>

### Parameters

Parameter | Requirement | Description
--- | --- | ---
`name` | A legal identifier token | A name of the member being detected.

### Expression semantics

For any legal C++ identifier `name`:

    BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(name)

Precondition: | Appears at namespace scope.
Return type: | None.
Semantics: | Equivalent to
    BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_NAMED_DEF(
          BOOST_PP_CAT(has_,name), name, false
        )

### Example

    BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_DEF(xxx)

    struct test1 {};
    struct test2 { void xxx(); };
    struct test3 { int xxx; };
    struct test4 { static int xxx(); };
    struct test5 { template< typename T > struct xxx {}; };
    struct test6 { typedef int xxx; };
    struct test7 { struct xxx; };
    struct test8 { typedef void (*xxx)(); };
    struct test9 { typedef void (xxx)(); };

    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_NOT(( has_xxx<test1> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_NOT(( has_xxx<test2> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_NOT(( has_xxx<test3> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_NOT(( has_xxx<test4> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_NOT(( has_xxx<test5> ));

    #if !defined(BOOST_MPL_CFG_NO_HAS_XXX)
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test6> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test7> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test8> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test9> ));
    #endif

    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test6,true_> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test7,true_> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test8,true_> ));
    BOOST_MPL_ASSERT(( has_xxx<test9,true_> ));

### See also

Macros, BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX_TRAIT_NAMED_DEF, BOOST_MPL_CFG_NO_HAS_XXX