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How should one match a specialized version of a variant?

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Let's say I have a variant that can hold a bunch of different types of values (say I got them from parsing a JSON or similar).

using Value = std::variant<std::monostate, int, double, std::string>;

Let's also say that I have another variant that is a strict subset of the first.

using Numeric = std::variant<int, double>;

Given a Value, what is the best way for me to specialize for Numeric? I've tried std::visit, which does work if I do concrete overloads...

template <class... Ts> struct overloaded : Ts... { using Ts::operator()...; };

void test(Value something) {
    std::visit(overloaded{
                   [](Numeric) { std::cout << "Number" << std::endl; },
                   [](std::string) { std::cout << "Other" << std::endl; },
                   [](std::monostate) { std::cout << "Other" << std::endl; },
               },
               something);
}
int main(int argc, char const *argv[]) {
    Value nothing{};
    Value some_int{10};
    Value some_float{10.0};
    Value some_string{"hello"};

    test(nothing);     // Other
    test(some_int);    // Number
    test(some_float);  // Number
    test(some_string); // Other

    return 0;
}

... but as you can see, I end up duplicating the other lambdas. However, it breaks if I use an auto'd default:

void test(Value something) {
    std::visit(overloaded{
                   [](Numeric) { std::cout << "Number" << std::endl; },
                   [](auto) { std::cout << "Other" << std::endl; },
               },
               something);
}
// Elided
test(nothing);     // Other
test(some_int);    // Other
test(some_float);  // Other
test(some_string); // Other

I've also tried using std::get_if but that just throws a bunch of errors at me (It seems that it can't tell that the auto'd lambda should exclude the values in Numeric)

void test(Value something) {
    if (auto numeric = std::get_if<Numeric>(&something)) {
        std::cout << "Number";
    } else {
        std::cout << "Other";
    }
}
/usr/include/c++/11/variant:1176:42: error: static assertion failed: T must occur exactly once in alternatives
 1176 |       static_assert(__detail::__variant::__exactly_once<_Tp, _Types...>,
      |                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/c++/11/variant:1176:42: note: ‘std::__detail::__variant::__exactly_once<std::variant<int, double>, std::monostate, int, double, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >’ evaluates to false

Is my only option explicitly listing out either the types I want to match on, or the types I don't want to match on? That would involve a lot of duplication, not to mention I would need to keep it synchronized with the variant.

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This can be achieved using SFINAE, making the default overload invalid for non-numeric types:

template <class T, class... Types>
constexpr bool in_variant(const std::variant<Types...> &) {
  const std::array hit{std::is_same_v<T, Types>...};
  return std::any_of(std::begin(hit), std::end(hit),
                     [](auto v) { return v; });
}

void test(Value something) {
  std::visit(
      overloaded{
          [](auto a,
             std::enable_if_t<in_variant<decltype(a)>(Numeric{}),
                              int> = 0) {
            std::cout << "Number" << std::endl; },
          [](auto a,
             std::enable_if_t<!in_variant<decltype(a)>(Numeric{}),
                              int> = 0) {
            std::cout << "Other" << std::endl;
          },
      },
      something);
}

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