[boost] Re: Re: Formal Review: FOREACH macro

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-02 11:02:04

> For what it's worth, I think the design is impressive and if I had come up
> with it I'd be very proud. Congratulations. The problem is that it is too
> clever. It is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

It allows most importantly:

1. Not to mention the collection type
 As Eric pointed out - you may not know one. But even if you do writing 
std::vector<mytypes<my_param> > several types for every loop I need is 
tidies.

2.No need to know/mention about iterator

Since you agree that looping is quite basic need - simplifying it is a 
worthy task. As for the complexity it's required to support some corner 
cases situation. You could always disable it with defines (that what I am 
going to do).

Gennadiy