Re: [boost] Re: any interest in a foreach looping construct?

From: Daniel Wallin (dalwan01_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-11 07:08:44

At 21:05 2003-10-09, Eric Niebler wrote:

>Resending. Based on the number of private replies I got, I suspect there 
>is some interest in adding a foreach looping construct to Boost. The lack 
>of public discussion makes me wonder, though. Does no one want to 
>publically support an Ugly Macro? :-) Or is this just not compelling enough?

I basically have two problems with this:

   1. It operates on containers rather than iterators.

   2. It reevaluates the container expression on every iteration.

I find both these issues annoying enough to outweigh the benefits.

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Daniel Wallin