Re: [boost] Re: Pretty Good Initialization Library

From: Andras Erdei (ccg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-09 12:42:43

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:12:53 -0700, "Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website for Email)" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>> >> Or maybe we should just use
>> >>
>> >>     int cv[] = { 1, 2, 3 };
>> >>     v.assign( cv, end(cv) );

>That's cool. Then, what is the motivation of the initialization library?

in my experience i have to initialize STL containers
only in extremely rare cases, so i don't need an 
initialization library, but if something allows me 
to write it in a way that resembles initialization i 
still want it -- because it's cool :O)

my two cents on the operator debate:

- people who know that "," is a sequence point will not
  get bitten by it, as they also tend to know that an 
  overloaded "," is not a sequence point; and if they do
  get bitten, they deserve it -- library authors should 
  know better, application developers intentionally
  relying on evaluation order are evil

- people who don't know what a sequence point is theoretically
  will get bitten regardless of which operator is used here,
  and practically will not get bitten, not more frequently
  than in any other part of their code with any other operator
  (built-in or user-defined)

imho the coding guideline was never valid, and operator "," is the 
best choice here

br,
andras