Re: Correct swapping

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:50:57 CST
Message-ID:
<190420070255545646%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article <1176934203.246655.276160@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Daniel Kr?gler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> wrote:

Another point to consider is, that it's usually a bad idea, to
provide operator<< on some arbitrary std::pair, because neither
std::pair nor std::ostream are *your* types. To fix your problem
I recommend in this special situation to use one of the following:

(a) Replace your std::copy invocation by a std::for_each call
(which uses a special print functor and *not* operator<< on
std::pair) or an explicit loop.

(b) Use a better customizable iterator like boost::transform_iterator
which uses the in (a) mentioned print-functor. This ansatz is
nearly identical to your std::copy approach, where you simply
r

    Depends if I have a complicated function using an output iterator
I would just create a small class and the needed operator << ().

struct Derived:std::pair<double,double>
{
    Derived(double a,double b):std::pair<double,double>(a,b){}
    Derived(std::pair<double,double> const
&a):std::pair<double,double>(a){};
    Derived & operator == (const std::pair<double,double> &x)
    {
       first = x.first;
       second = x.second
       return *this;
    };
};

inline std::ostream & operator << (std::istream &s,const Derived &x)
{
    return s << '(' << x.first << ',' << x.second << ')';
}

now if I need operator << () I make sure I have a Derived and not an
std::pair<double,double> [it I miss it the compiler will complain, and
I can fix it.
    std::vector<std::pair<double,double> > stuff;
    // set up stuff

complicated_algorithm(stuff.begin(),stuff.end(),std::ostream_iterator<
Derived > (std::cout,"\n"));

std::ostream_iterator<T,C,Tr>::operator = (const T &) is not a template
function so conversion exists from the ctor taking a const pair<> & and
all is well.

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