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[Prav]

Why  it  is  done  so  that  foreach  statement  is  doing  copying of
container?

I can not imagine good cases of using current container-copy feature of foreach ... to be able to modify container while looping through its hiddenly copied duplicate ... well ... this is something ... let's say special ;)

This copying happens because in qglobal.h there is "const T c;":

template <typename T>
  class QForeachContainer {
    QForeachContainer &operator=(const QForeachContainer &) Q_DECL_EQ_DELETE;
public:
    inline QForeachContainer(const T& t) : c(t), i(c.begin()), e(c.end()), control(1) { }
    const T c;
    typename T::const_iterator i, e;
    int control;
};

As   soon   as  foreach  is  intended to not modify container I see no point in copying it. Change in as easy as saying "const T &c;" instead of current "const T c;"

Although current implementation of iterator-loop have the right to exist but in this case I would expect it to co-exist with another iterator-loop which works in more straightforward for developers way (with just const-ref to container).


P.S. And yes ... I now about implicit sharing of Qt containers.
But  Qt-containers  tries  to be stl-compatible and if Qt-developer is used  to  use  foreach  for  Qt-containers it could be non-obvious for him/her that for stl-container the container data copying is happening every time foreach statement is used (as soon as stl-containers does not do implicit sharing)