Re: [Boost-users] metafunction question

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] metafunction question
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-11 14:35:26

Le 11/05/2010 19:30, John Dlugosz wrote:

> Consider a class derived from an STL collection.

You should never do that.

>  It features a special find(x) function that works with his search criteria.  It returns an iterator into the collection.  There are two forms needed:
> 	iterator find(x);
> 	const_iterator find(x) const;
> and the annoying part is that they contain exactly the same code.  The implementation uses the inherited iterators and collection features to do the finding.
>
> The larger question is, is there a better way to approach that?

Macros?