Re: any_of, all_of, none_of

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:32:08 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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Am 28.08.2011 20:20, schrieb gast128@hotmail.com:
[..]

Actually I have 2 requests:
- all / all_if: value and predicate variants. This one I was posting
about.


If you want to realize I suggest that you make a official proposal and
send it for consideration to the committee.

- all / all_if working on ranges instead of [begin, end>. This will
probably offered by Boost.Range in time


This won't work without a complete proposal for ranges in the library.
It wouldn't make sense to provide such a support for a single function
template.

If the STL doesn't offer a value based one, we can still define one in
our code, preferably in the implementation using the all_of varaint.
Since this is a template (look at the function prototype in previous
post) we cannot use the lambda expressions.


You claimed this several times and I asked for some evidence. Why
shouldn't this work:

#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>

template <typename For, typename ValueType>
bool all(For first, For last, const ValueType& rValue)
{
   return std::all_of(first, last,
      [&](const typename std::iterator_traits<For>::value_type& value)
     { return rValue == value; }
   );
}

?

We can use the bind
version but we might have here a small performance or build time
drawback. it would be better if the STL just had defined this in the
beginning (and afaiac with a consistent naming convention).


There is no reason for binding it, as shown above. If you are not
satisfied with the current state, you should make a proposal, but be
aware that this will need some time for coming part of the next
standard. You should try to find some more reasons except for "just for
completeness", because a standard with millions of variants of an
algorithm does not necessarily improve the state.

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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