Re: for_each loop on a map without a functor
In article <4833611d-1e00-4984-bf4e-313b2f7fb957@
21g2000hsj.googlegroups.com>, nicolas.guillot@gmail.com says...
Hello
I used to loop on a std::map<k, d> to act on the data (d) like that (d
being a class with setIntMember method):
typedef std::map<k, d> tMap;
struct setIntMember
{
setIntMember(int j) : i(j) {}
void operator()(tMap::value_type& pair)
{ pair.second.setIntMember(i); }
int i;
};
The loop being:
for_each(m.begin(), m.end(), setIntMember(4));
I searched for a method to write all in the for_each loop (to avoid
increasing the functors).
In this case, I'm pretty sure a simple for loop is really much more
readable than anything using for_each:
for (std::map<k,d>::iterator p=m.begin(), p!=m.end(), ++p)
p->second = 4;
Boost::lambda is often useful when you want to avoid (explicitly)
creating a functor, but I don't believe it works for this particular
case. As we've already seen in the rest of the thread, the code to make
for_each do the job ends up ugly and MUCH less readable than an explicit
loop. I know we'd all like to use an algorithm, but in this case the
cost is high and the benefit essentially nonexistent.
--
Later,
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