Re: [Boost-users] [fusion] Stateful unary functor for for_each loop

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-26 12:53:32

Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> Frankly, I think the proposed design (function object passed by 
>> value, or by reference with explicitly specified template arg) is 
>> ugly. It'll
>> be ugly both from the user's perspective and in the implementation. 
>
> OK, but why?

Because it forces users to repeat the type of the function object. Isn't 
it nicer to say for_each( seq, ref(func) ) instead of for_each< Func & 
 >( seq, func )?

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Eric Niebler
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