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Many times in working with STL I've wished for a new operator to return
the type of an expression, much the same way sizeof returns the size of
an expression.

It would allow programs like the following, for example:

   set<foo, less<foo> > s;
   for(typeof(s)::iterator i = s.begin(); i != s.end(); i++)
      // do something

I suppose this must have been considered by now.  Has anything come of
it?

Tim Boemker
Optimum Group


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