In-Reply-To: <d55ii6$74o$1@sea.gmane.org> gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com (Gennadiy Rozental) wrote (abridged):

1. Not to mention the collection type As Eric pointed out - you may not know one. But even if you do writing std::vector<mytypes<my_param> > several types for every loop I need is tidies.

I generally solve that problem with a typedef. Most of the time the collection is a class, the typedef is a member of that class, and the iterating code is a member function of that class. So the word "iterator" is all I need. If your loops are so complex you would benefit from BOOST_FOREACH, I think you'd also benefit from simplifying them, separating concerns a bit more, etc.

Since you agree that looping is quite basic need - simplifying it is a worthy task.

I agree it's a worthy ambition, but this doesn't simplify them. It makes them much more complex and then tries to hide the complexity behind a macro.

As for the complexity it's required to support some corner cases situation. You could always disable it with defines (that what I am going to do).

Adding #defines is adding complexity. -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.