220 15320 article Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olaf van der Spek Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Re: Isn't it time we had the bool std::[container]::contains() family of methods? 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[2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m3si32241802qaa.31.2014.12.26.08.29.18 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:29:18 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of olafvdspek@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22d as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22d; Original-Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id f12so5841232qad.18 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:29:18 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.224.65.69 with SMTP id h5mr70483987qai.69.1419611358070; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:29:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.229.151.70 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:29:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <46cc4da5-98d1-471f-ab31-714ac5502853@isocpp.org> X-Original-Sender: olafvdspek@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of olafvdspek@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22d as permitted sender) smtp.mail=olafvdspek@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:15320 Archived-At: On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Leo Heinsaar wrote: > On Friday, December 26, 2014 4:50:15 PM UTC+4, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Leo Heinsaar wrote: >> > Sorry Andy - I took a closer look at Bjarne's proposal; it seems like if >> > it >> > goes through, we'll indeed be able to have a global contains() with all >> > the >> > benefits with respect to having it for arrays and such, invokable via >> > vec.contains(x) syntax. (It really is about nicer syntax as well as less >> > - a >> > lot less - typing.) >> >> How is it less typing? Auto-complete? > > > Since we'll be able to simply write > > phone_book.contains(number) > > instead of: > > phone_book.find(number) != phone_book.end() > > Not to mention how much more clearly the simplified version, as they like to > call it, expresses intent. I thought that was an argument against a free function. Today one can already write phone_book.count(number); -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/std-proposals/. .