The MPL Reference Manual: Placeholder Expression

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# Placeholder Expression

### Description

A Placeholder Expression is a type that is either a placeholder or a class template specialization with at least one argument that itself is a Placeholder Expression.

### Expression requirements

If `X` is a class template, and `a1`,... `an` are arbitrary types, then `X<a1,...,an>` is a Placeholder Expression if and only if all of the following conditions hold:

- At least one of the template arguments `a1`,... `an` is a placeholder or a Placeholder Expression.
- All of `X`'s template parameters, including the default ones, are types.
- The number of `X`'s template parameters, including the default ones, is less or equal to the value of `BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_METAFUNCTION_ARITY` configuration macro.

### Models

- `_1`
- `plus<_, int_<2> >`
- `if_< less<_1, int_<7> >, plus<_1,_2>, _1 >`

### See also

Lambda Expression, Placeholders, Metafunctions, `apply`, `lambda`