Jarrett Billingsley Wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Sam S E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does foreach use delegates? Isn't that unnecessary overhead? > > --Sam > > It does use delegates, for iterating over most types. When iterating > over arrays, the compiler turns it into a sort of for loop instead. > > Is it unnecessary overhead? It's not always as fast as it could be, > but unless someone can figure out some other way of implementing it, > it's pretty much the best we can get. > > How about iterator objects, like in C++ or Java? Are they unnecessary > overhead? ;)
Why not just use a normal for loop; wouldn't it be almost as simple as token substitution? By 'most types,' do you mean associative arrays or am I forgetting something? As a mainly C(++) programmer, I don't use iterators when I don't need to. I don't even use classes when I don't need to.
