Re: STL and polymorphic paramaters

From:
"Jiang" <goo.mail01@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
22 Sep 2006 08:29:33 -0400
Message-ID:
<1158891107.953076.298790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
christian.bongiorno@gmail.com wrote:

Can someone explain to me how I can create a polymorphic iterative
function for, as an example, list and vector -- as in:

void printMe({list | vector} myStuff) {
    SomeType< >::const_iterator itr;
    for(itr = myStuff.begin(); itr != myStuff.end(); itr++)
           cout << *itr << endl;
}

I am not sure this is possible, much less what the syntax might be


You can save the explicit iterator declaration and loop if
stl algorithm is applicable.

An quick example:

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>

template <typename C>
void printMe(const C &myStuff)
{
    std::copy(myStuff.begin(), myStuff.end(),
        std::ostream_iterator<typename C::value_type>
        (std::cout, "\n"));
}

#include <vector>
#include <list>

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> vec;
    vec.push_back(1);
    vec.push_back(2);
    vec.push_back(3);
    printMe(vec);

    std::list<char> list;
    list.push_back('a');
    list.push_back('b');
    list.push_back('c');
    printMe(list);
}

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