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15<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./miscellaneous.html#id488" name="identity">identity</a></h1>
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17<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#synopsis" name="synopsis">Synopsis</a></h3>
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19template&lt; 
20      typename X
21    &gt;
22struct <a href="./identity.html" class="identifier">identity</a>
23{
24    typedef X type;
25};
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29<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3>
30<p>The <a class="reference" href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IdentityFunction.html" target="_top">identity</a> metafunction. Returns <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X</span></tt> unchanged.</p>
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35#include &lt;<a href="../../../../boost/mpl/identity.hpp" class="header">boost/mpl/identity.hpp</a>&gt;
36</pre>
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38<div class="section" id="identity-model-of">
39<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#model-of" name="model-of">Model of</a></h3>
40<p><a class="reference" href="./metafunction.html">Metafunction</a></p>
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43<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#parameters" name="parameters">Parameters</a></h3>
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52<th>Requirement</th>
53<th>Description</th>
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57<tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">X</span></tt></td>
58<td>Any type</td>
59<td>An argument to be returned.</td>
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64<div class="section" id="identity-expression-semantics">
65<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3>
66<p>For an arbitrary type <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">x</span></tt>:</p>
67<pre class="literal-block">
68typedef <a href="./identity.html" class="identifier">identity</a>&lt;x&gt;::type r;
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74<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body">A type.</td>
75</tr>
76<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Semantics:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Equivalent to</p>
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78typedef x r;
79</pre>
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82<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Postcondition:</th><td class="field-body"><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">is_same&lt;r,x&gt;::value</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">true</span></tt>.</td>
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87<div class="section" id="identity-example">
88<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#example" name="example">Example</a></h3>
89<pre class="literal-block">
90typedef <a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>&lt; <a href="./identity.html" class="identifier">identity</a>&lt;_1&gt;, char &gt;::type t1;
91typedef <a href="./apply.html" class="identifier">apply</a>&lt; <a href="./identity.html" class="identifier">identity</a>&lt;_2&gt;, char,int &gt;::type t2;
92
93<a href="./assert.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT</a>(( is_same&lt; t1, char &gt; ));
94<a href="./assert.html" class="identifier">BOOST_MPL_ASSERT</a>(( is_same&lt; t2, int > ));
95</pre>
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97<div class="section" id="identity-see-also">
98<h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#see-also" name="see-also">See also</a></h3>
99<p><a class="reference" href="./metafunctions.html">Metafunctions</a>, <a class="reference" href="./placeholders.html">Placeholders</a>, <a class="reference" href="./trivial.html">Trivial Metafunctions</a>, <a class="refentry reference" href="./always.html"><tt class="refentry literal"><span class="pre">always</span></tt></a>, <a class="refentry reference" href="./apply.html"><tt class="refentry literal"><span class="pre">apply</span></tt></a></p>
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