arbitrary number of arguments in RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR

[eantonya]

Currently it only take one-argument functions - add a variadic extension, to be able to use functions with multiple arguments in addition to just the SEXP.

[romainfrancois]

Can you share some examples ? Not a big fan of variadics in a pre C++11 world. They bring type safety issues, ...

[eantonya]

E.g. writing a subset function that has two arguments - a Vector<> and an integer vector that will select appropriate elements from the Vector.

[romainfrancois]

Not sure it is worth generalizing it, we are going to end up with multiple macros like RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR_1, RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR_2, ... and we (at least until july) have already lots of macro code bloat noise in Rcpp.

[eantonya]

Perhaps I'm missing something about the compiler restrictions you have, but
this type of code works fine for me:

#define dispatch(FUN, SEXP,
...)
switch (TYPEOF(SEXP))
{
case
INTSXP:
return FUN< Vector >(Vector(SEXP),
##VA_ARGS);
...

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Romain François
notifications@github.comwrote:

Not sure it is worth generalizing it, we are going to end up with multiple
macros like RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR_1, RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR_2, ... and we (at
least until july) have already lots of macro code bloat noise in Rcpp.

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[romainfrancois]

variadic macros have only been integrated into the standard in C++11. So this is not standard C++, so we can't have this in Rcpp.

it could go into Rcpp11 which assumes C++11.

I'm closing this as it is not going to happen. sorry.

[artemklevtsov]

Now we can implement this with the conditional define (with RCPP_USING_CXX11).

[eddelbuettel]

Maybe. Something small and local would be a good test.

I would not want to have to TWICE the rev.dep'ing but it still works (maybe without the feature) in C++98 and adds a new chiefly at interface / edge feature that nothing else in Rcpp itself depends upon, we could.

Alternatively, maybe an add-on package could be used. If you do it in headers all it "costs" users is another LinkingTo:. Might be cleaner. Either way -- want to do a pull request?

[artemklevtsov]

We need a minimal changes (example here) so existing code will work.
Revdeps seems is no problem:

• https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR&type=Code
• https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+RCPP_RETURN_MATRIX&type=Code

Is better define additional macro (RCPP_RETURN_VECTOR2?) or conditional redefine an existing?