[boost] Re: FOREACH / C++ "for" proposal

From: Joe Gottman (jgottman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-09 19:19:23

"Stefan Strasser" <sstrasser_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:427F7635.4010303_at_systemhaus-gruppe.de...
> you might be interested in this document from the new c++0x mailing:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2005/n1796.html
>
> for the naming discussion, proposed syntax is for(int i : vec)
> (personally I don't care if it's called BOOST_FOREACH or BOOST_FOR)
>

   This proposal might be a good reason to rush BOOST_FOREACH into boost 
version 1.33.  If the standards committee is considering adding something 
like BOOST_FOREACH, it would be good for them to have some data about how 
easy and useful the average programmer finds this functionality.

Joe Gottman