hungarian notation is evil (was Re: Do I always have to write "self." ?)

[Michael Hudson]

Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> writes:

> > I like how C++ templates are Turing complete.  That means trying to
> > determine whether or not a C++ program will even compile is equivalent
> > to the Halting Problem.
> 
> How do you do the equivalent of a for loop using templates?

Noisily; it's been a while since I played with this kind of thing, but
hopefuly this will give you some idea:

#include <iostream>

template< int N >
class SumOfSquares {
public:
    enum { val = N*N+SumOfSquares<N-1>::val };
};

template<>
class SumOfSquares<0> {
public:
    enum { val = 0 };
};

int main(void) {
  cout << SumOfSquares<7>::val << endl;
}

then:

[mwh21 at atrus C]$ g++ templatefun.cc
[mwh21 at atrus C]$ ./a.out 
140

[ God, I know C++ too well - I hadn't written any for months before
  that, and I get template meta-programming right basically first
  time... (after I remebered the syntax of enums!) ]

also-known-as-"how-to-crush-your-C++-compiler"-ly y'rs
Michael

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