Re: Variables in "for" Loop
On 2010-09-01 12:58, Johannes Schaub (litb) wrote:
Johannes Schaub (litb) wrote:
for(struct { list<string> newlines; list<string>::iterator line; }
loop = { frame(oldlines), loop.newlines.begin() };
loop.line != loop.newlines.end(); ++loop.line)
{ ... }
Ah, seems I've fallen into a trap. C++03 does not define the order in which
the members are initialized, neither the order in which the elements in the
initializer list are evaluated. C++0x specifies the order in which the
elements of the initializer list are evaluated, but doesn't specify the
order in which the elements are initialized either, it seems.
So the "loop.newlines" is not safe to use because there is no guaranteed
that the list was already created at that point. :(
I'm pretty sure that the members are initialized in the order they are
declared in the struct definition, even in C++03 (12.6.2/5).
However, I agree that this alone doesn't make the technique safe to use,
if the order of evaluation of the expressions in the initializer list is
not specified.
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