From 6398435769684101244 X-Google-Thread: 7894ca11fe,b8f03ff37c64f88c X-Google-Attributes: gid7894ca11fe,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.alt.net!frodo.cs.rpi.edu!not-for-mail From: Nikolay Ivchenkov Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: No cbegin/cend for std::initializer_list? Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:42:08 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 21 Sender: cppmods@cs.rpi.edu Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com Message-ID: <2e617b47-bbb5-4768-b1d6-bc786cbb8fae@c37g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20090901101108.063e9c28@aristeia.com> <1b8b2c5d-7f06-46c5-b403-50aad13632cf@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <0081c572-9bbe-457e-9f54-b97da4ebfae0@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R To: (Usenet) Return-Path: X-Original-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:20:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:1337 On 2 ���, 21:38, "Philipp M." wrote: > Could you outline a few situations were usage of the members might > lead to unexpected problems afterwards? This approach will not work properly with old-style classes those represent ranges. Furthermore, if we are talking about the use of std::initializer_list, we should note that std::initializer_list is simple kind of range (it is not a container). In general, range can be represented by built-in array, pair of iterators packed in std::pair or std::tuple, container, std::initializer_list, or other special range-class. Well-designed generic code, that works with an abstract range, should support all these categories. Direct use of member "cbegin" will entail pointless limitations on use of such code. -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]