Re: Print numbers

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Jul 8, 5:49 am, red floyd <no.spam.h...@example.com> wrote:

James Kanze wrote:

On Jul 7, 12:46 pm, arnuld <sunr...@invalid.address> wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:40:44 -0700, James Kanze wrote:


    [...]

I suspect it's homework, but you probably knew that, James.


Exactly. Thus, a few "exotic" suggestions. I wonder what his
prof would say if he turned in the one with the floating point.

Of course, as he originally stated the problem, my original
solution (std::cout << "1,1,2,3,..") is both the simplest and
the most efficient---and so, the correct solution. I rather
doubt, however, that that was what the prof was looking for.

I wish I could remember one of the IOCCC fibonacci programs.
But I can't. So here's one that will hopefully confuse the
OP.

#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
template <int N> struct fib {
     enum { value = fib<N-1>::value + fib<N-2>::value };

};

template<> struct fib<0> {
    enum {value = 1 };
};

template<> struct fib<1> {
    enum {value = 1};
};

int main()
{
     int const fv[] = { fib<1>::value, fib<2>::value, fib<3>::value,
                  fib<4>::value, fib<5>::value, fib<6>::value,
                  fib<7>::value };
      std::copy(fv, fv+7, std::output_iterator<int>(std::cout,","));
}


Yes. And if you want the number of values to be variable, you
ouput the code to a temporary file, looping over the
initialization of fv, and then use system to compile and run
that.

I like it!

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