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From: "Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: for-else: adding else to for loops
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:12:24 CST
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"Jared Grubb" <jared.grubb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 3) by encapsulating the for-loop in a separate function (the "break"
> becomes "return" and the extra code follows the for loop).
>
> The third solution is probably the best way
> to do it, but sometimes encapsulating the for-loop out is not easy or
> nice.
>

With the ability to have (logically) nested functions due to lambdas

Could you not just do

auto iter=lst.begin();
[&]->void {
for (; iter != lst.end(); ++iter)
{
     if (*iter == NEEDLE) return;
}
cout << "needle not in the list";
}();

right where you would have otherwise put the code?



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