Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>At the same time, we don't want to have a procedure call for every single
>character indexing operation. So we need to get that kind of loop turned into
>something that looks/smells like:
>
> foreach chunk in string
> while chunk.notEmpty()
> (c, chunk) = chunk[0], chunk.rest()
That's reminiscent of the range based approach advocated by Andrej Alexandrescu:
http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1407357
It doesn't seem to have provoked great loathing. Some reactions here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/838721/c-iterators-considered-harmful
Alex
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