[boost] Re: looping construct

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-22 06:10:43

Daniel Wallin <dalwan01_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I shudder at the thought of a lambda that takes up more than a few
>> lines. A foreach construct would make it easier to read, in that
>> case.
>
> But then again, if we had a type inference mechanism and a range library
> the for-loop is easy enough:
>
>    for (auto r = range(v); r; ++r)
>    {
>    }
>
> I would agree that there would be need for a simpler loop head if we had
> to write every trivial loop on our own, but we have standard algorithms.
>

And they increasingly implement optimizations like loop unrolling.

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Dave Abrahams
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