3 <title>BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</title>
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8 The
<b>BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</b> macro expands to a macro that eats a
<i>tuple
</i>.
12 <b>BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</b>(
<i>size
</i>)
<br>
16 <b>BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</b>(
<i>size
</i>)
<a href=
"../topics/variadic_macros.html#VNotation" target=
"_self"><sup>(v)
</sup></a><b></b><br>
22 The size of the
<i>tuple
</i> to be eaten.
23 Valid
<i>tuple
</i> sizes range from
<i>1</i> to
<b>BOOST_PP_LIMIT_TUPLE
</b>.
28 The
<i>size
</i> argument must be the actual size of the
<i>tuple
</i> in the non-variadic version.
<br>
29 <br>For the variadic version
<a href=
"../topics/variadic_macros.html#VNotation" target=
"_self"><sup>(v)
</sup></a> the
31 completely so that the macro can be invoked as BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT(); you may get a warning from some compilers, but the
32 functionality will still work. If you specify a size in the variadic
33 version, it will be ignored, but the warning from some compilers will
38 <li><a href=
"limit_tuple.html">BOOST_PP_LIMIT_TUPLE
</a></li>
42 <b>Header:
</b> <a href=
"../headers/tuple/eat.html"><boost/preprocessor/tuple/eat.hpp
></a>
45 <div><pre>#include
<<a href=
"../headers/control/if.html">boost/preprocessor/control/if.hpp
</a>><br>#include
<<a href=
"../headers/tuple/eat.html">boost/preprocessor/tuple/eat.hpp
</a>><br><br>#define OP(a, b) (a b)
<br><br>#define MACRO(n)
<a href=
"if.html">BOOST_PP_IF
</a>(n, OP,
<a href=
"tuple_eat.html">BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</a>(
2))(
1,
2)
<br><br>// or for the variadic version
<a href=
"../topics/variadic_macros.html#VNotation" target=
"_self"><sup>(v)
</sup></a><br><br>#define MACRO(n)
<a href=
"if.html">BOOST_PP_IF
</a>(n, OP,
<a href=
"file:///C:/Programming/VersionControl/sandbox/variadics/libs/preprocessor/doc/ref/tuple_eat.html">BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT
</a>())(
1,
2)
<br><br>MACRO(
0) // expands to nothing
<br>MACRO(
1) // expands to (
1,
2)
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