Re: Templated Lambda Functions?

From:
Vidar Hasfjord <vattilah-groups@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 2 Apr 2011 16:16:04 CST
Message-ID:
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On Apr 1, 4:48 pm, Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid> wrote:

[...]
Here's a worked, compilable example:

#include <set>

using namespace std;

void main()
{
        set<int> coll;

        for (size_t x = 0; x< 100; ++x) coll.insert(rand());

        auto howManyMake1000 = [&](set<int>::iterator first,
set<int>::iterator last)->size_t
        {
               int x = 0;
               int count = 0;

               for (set<int>::iterator where = first; where != last && x
< 1000; ++where,++count)
                      x += *where;
               return count;
        };

        size_t howMany = howManyMake1000(coll.begin(), coll.end());

}

In my real code the lambda needs access to a bunch of local variables to
do its magic - not least the logging object! - and I want another line
which the equivalent of

size_t howManyEnd = howManyMake1000(coll.rbegin(), coll.rend());


Since you clearly need a named object here I don't see lambdas as the
solution. That said, I see that it would be somewhat convenient to
declare a template function locally, but this is unfortunately not
allowed.

The only reason you need a template here is to handle the different
iterator types. If you can separate the iteration from the rest of the
logic of your function and reformulate the latter as a functor, then
you can call upon the standard library to do the iteration. You can
pass the functor whatever state and references it needs to do its job
(including a reference to your logging object).

For example:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main () {
 vector <int> c (10);
 generate (c.begin (), c.end (), &rand);
 for_each (c.begin (), c.end (), [] (int i) {cout << i << " ";});
 cout << endl;

 struct WithinPartialSum {
   int target_sum, partial_sum;

   WithinPartialSum (int sum)
     : target_sum (sum), partial_sum (0) {}

   bool operator () (int i)
   {return (partial_sum += i) <= target_sum;}
 };

 const int s = 100000;
 int nf = count_if (c.begin (), c.end (), WithinPartialSum (s));
 int nb = count_if (c.rbegin (), c.rend (), WithinPartialSum (s));

 cout << "Number of items within partial sum " << s << ": \n"
   << "forwards: " << nf << ", backwards: " << nb << endl;
 cin.get (); // pause
 return 0;
}

Regards,
Vidar Hasfjord

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