[boost] Re: Formal Review: FOREACH macro

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-03 02:36:28

Dave Harris wrote:
> 
> No, I meant what I wrote. I usually have a suitable iterator typedef in 
> scope. In the worst case it is more like:
> 
>    typedef vector<ArbitrarilyComplexType> MyVec;
>    for (MyVec::iterator i = vec.begin(); i != vec.end(); ++i)
>        cout << *i;
> 

But we sometimes have containers of boost::shared_ptr which then requires

(*i)->

to access.

BOOST_FOREACH simplifies these cases.

Cheers

Russell