Copied from devel: On 6/24/11 1:30 PM, er wrote:

On 6/24/11 9:08 AM, Stewart, Robert wrote:

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I am sure that it is a powerful library, but I really have no idea at all what is going on. I can't even parse the first line as valid C++ in any way. You need better examples, and also is that really the best way you could find to express repeating?

If I try to imagine what the interface would look like after taking into account some of the suggestions that were made, this sentence:

"Create data elements by mapping 1, 10, 100, 1000 by function f, and insert each result in cont by invoking modifier push_front."

If I interpret that correctly, it would be clearer as:

"Create elements in cont, using push_front(), by calling f() 1, 10, 100, and 1000 times."

Apologies, I misread this. It should be :

Map 1, 10, 100, and 1000 by function f, which yields f( 1 ), f( 10 ), f( 100 ), f( 1000 ) and insert each, n times, using push_front, in cont.

T x;

x = f( 1 ); for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){ cont.push_front( x ); }

x = f( 10 ); for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){ cont.push_front( x ); }

etc.

The meaning of what is said next, I think, is not altered.