[boost] Re: Formal Review: FOREACH macro

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-02 16:05:09

"Eric Niebler" <eric_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Stefan Strasser wrote:
>> Eric Niebler schrieb:
>> 
>>> Even when writing loops by hand, it's a good idea to save the
>>> result of .end() in a local to avoid repeated function calls that
>>> are not necessary. It's called "hoisting". It's one of the
>>> side-benefits of using FOREACH and std:: algorithms.
>>>
>>>
>> I think it's not worth it here.
>> besides that it isn't a performance overhead on most containers you
>> don't expect that from a keyword.
>
>
> Huh, *I* would expect that from a keyword.

Me too.  Furthermore, I wouldn't use this library unless it did
hoisting.

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