interesting feature to add to clang

Douglas Gregor dgregor at apple.com
Thu Apr 11 16:02:21 PDT 2013


On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Reed Kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:

> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/Proposals/metaware-iterator-driven-for.html
> 
> I wish I had the spare cycles right now to add this feature.
> 
> This form of iterators really simplifies many complex algorithms in compilers; especially many graph algorithms.
> 
> In general it works much better than STL form iterators in terms of algorithm clarity and simplification, IMHO.


No specific reaction to this paper, but this kind of change would require C/C++ committee involvement to meet the language-extension criteria described at:

	http://clang.llvm.org/get_involved.html#contributing

	- Doug
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