Is out-of-line sfinae on template member functions

Question

Demo

A in class declaration of A::foo.

struct A {
    template <typename T>
    void foo(T a); 
};

A::foo is now split by sfinae.

template <typename T>
typename std::enable_if<(sizeof(T) > 4), void>::type A::foo(T a ) {
    std::cout << "> 4 \n";
}

This doesn't work. Is this not allowed?

Answer 1

The return type in the declaration must match the definition.

struct A {
    template <typename T>
    typename std::enable_if<(sizeof(T) > 4), void>::type
    foo(T a); 
};

SFINAE cannot be encapsulated as an implementation detail.

(demo)

Answer 2

One way to achieve this is to internally tag-dispatch:

#include <utility>
#include <iostream>

struct A {
    template <typename T>
    void foo(T a); 

    private:

    template<class T> 
    auto implement_foo(T value, std::true_type) -> void;

    template<class T> 
    auto implement_foo(T value, std::false_type) -> void;
};

template <typename T>
void A::foo(T a ) {
    implement_foo(a, std::integral_constant<bool, (sizeof(T)>4)>());
}

template<class T> 
auto A::implement_foo(T value, std::true_type) -> void
{
    std::cout << "> 4 \n";
}

template<class T> 
auto A::implement_foo(T value, std::false_type) -> void
{
    std::cout << "not > 4 \n";
}


main()
{
    A a;
    a.foo(char(1));
    a.foo(double(1));
}