Iterators/vectors (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)

[Antoine van Gelder]

On 01 Jun 2001 07:25:39 -0400, Michael Dickson wrote:
> If I had to change anything about it (and we don't :)  I'd replace the 
> typesafe iterators with one generic one.  Its a small point but the 
> other methods generates lots of stubs and skeletons (for languages that 
> have them).  I generally prefer type safety but in practice this proved 
> to be a bit of a pain.  So the code you'd likely see would look like:
> 
> Object obj;
> while (someIterator.next(&obj)) {
>   TypedObj tobj = TypedObjHelper.narrow(obj);
>   tobj.dostuff();
> }

*yum*

No more twenty billion YetAnotherIterator_Impl.cpp to clutter up my hard
drive.

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