Exploring the standard concepts library

The standard library provides a set of fundamental concepts that can be used to define requirements on the template arguments of function templates, class templates, variable templates, and alias templates, as we have seen throughout this chapter. The standard concepts in C++20 are spread across several headers and namespaces. We will present some of them in this section although not all of them. You can find all of them online at https://en.cppreference.com/.

The main set of concepts is available in the <concepts> header and the std namespace. Most of these concepts are equivalent to one or more existing type traits. For some of them, their implementation is well-defined; for some, it is unspecified. They are grouped into four categories: core language concepts, comparison concepts, object concepts, and callable concepts. This set of concepts contains the following (but not only):

Table 6.1

Some of...