[Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

[Marc Mutz]

On Saturday 23 January 2016 17:46:39 Andre Somers wrote:
> On 22-1-2016 22:51, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > I'd already be happy with those that were (are, actually) already
> > there. I'd rather have 10-20 common algorithms with a convenient API
> > than 80+ obscure ones that force me to use iterators (especially the
> > boilerplate .begin() and .end() iterators that will be used in 99+% of
> > the cases – copy&paste programming sucks).
> 
> Please note that the algorithms in STD are by no means complete. You are
> stimulated to add your own that you find useful, either as
> specializations or combinations of what is already there, as
> implementations of known algorithms in literature or even completely new
> ones ("Publish! Become Famous! (Don't patent please.)" - Sean Parent).
> Stephanov has seen his original design of STL been significantly
> shortened to get it through the commission; the proposal included much
> more than what is in STD even now after the more recent additions.
> 
> So, by all means, add what you deem useful.
> 
> I certainly agree that having to write begin/end pairs for all
> algorithms is not nice. It is the most general way to specify them
> however, so I understand why they are like this. And it even makes sense
> for some of them (like find, where you can then call find again using
> the return value of the last call to get the next match). Even for sort
> there certainly are use cases for a pair of iterators instead of passing
> the whole container. Still, it would make perfect sense to create
> versions that take a whole container. I don't even think that that is
> hard to do...
> 
> template < class Container, class Compare >
> void sort ( Container container, Compare compare)
> {
>      sort(begin(container), end(container), compare);
> };
> 
> Something like that perhaps? Feel free to add as many as you think are
> useful.

The problem is that these overloads quickly become ambiguous with existing 
ones. So at a minimum, you need to have a special suffix (_all).Overloading on 
concepts is needed to solve this properly.

Thanks,
Marc

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