Re: maximum continuation lines in C++

From:
Stuart Golodetz <blah@blah.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 28 May 2010 17:21:03 +0100
Message-ID:
<3NadnUjDGa3ocGLWnZ2dnUVZ8mWdnZ2d@pipex.net>
On 27/05/2010 21:32, Jonathan Lee wrote:

On May 27, 4:20 pm, "Lynn McGuire"<l...@winsim.com> wrote:

Why would I do that ? std::vector objects are incrediby useful to pass around,
especially when one needs to know the size of the vector at runtime.


Because then you could do this:

   #include<vector>
   #include<string>
   #include<iostream>

   const char* spt[] = { // move to a header file and hide it
     "Metal Raschig Super-Ring 0.3 mm",
     "Metal Raschig Super-Ring 0.5 mm" };

   int main() {
     // no need for tupleString(up to 40 args)
     size_t n = sizeof(spt)/sizeof(spt[0]);
     std::vector< std::string> string_packing_types(spt, spt + n);

     for (size_t i = 0; i< n; ++i)
       std::cout<< string_packing_types[i]<< std::endl;
   }

--Jonathan


At the risk of being summarily shot, here's one other way you *could* do
it but should probably never use:

#include <cstdarg>
#include <cstdio>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

template <typename T>
std::vector<T> make_vector(size_t count, ...)
{
    std::vector<T> v;
    va_list arg;
    va_start(arg, count);
    v.reserve(count);
    for(size_t i=0; i<count; ++i)
    {
        v.push_back(va_arg(arg, T));
    }
    return v;
}

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> iv = make_vector<int>(6,
        23,
        9,
        7,
        8,
        17,
        10
    );

    std::vector<std::string> sv = make_vector<std::string>(3,
        std::string("Blah"),
        std::string("Wibble"),
        std::string("Foo")
    );

    return 0;
}

I hasten to add that this technique is about as safe as base jumping :)
But FWIW... Incidentally, if you replace make_vector with void
fill_vector(std::vector<T>& v, size_t count, ...), you can avoid
respecifying the vector's template parameter. YMMV.

Stu

P.S. For anyone who is genuinely wavering over using this, just say no -
the convenience of this technique just isn't worth the loss of type
safety involved.

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