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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch] libstdc++/67374 declare valarray begin/end overloads in <iterator>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150827195425.GX2631@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1508272136490.3510@laptop-mg.saclay.inria.fr>

On 27/08/15 21:48 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>
>>The std::cbegin function in <bits/range_access.h> can't call the
>>std::begin function in <valarray> unless it knows about it, so we need
>>to declare the valarray overloads in <bits/range_access.h>.
>
>Hmm, do you remember why valarray has an ugly overload of std::begin 
>instead of a nice member function begin like every other container ? 
>It should at least be legal to implement it this way.

No, sorry, I have no idea.

C++11 added the begin non-members, and then C++14 added the
cbegin non-member, which calls std::begin.

I'm not convinced it's supposed to work with valarray, but it's
confusing that it doesn't when std::begin(const valarray<T>&) exists.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27 19:07 Jonathan Wakely
2015-08-27 19:48 ` Marc Glisse
2015-08-27 19:56   ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2015-08-28  5:18     ` Kohei Takahashi

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