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>>>>> Tim Boemker <tjb839@zacatecas.optimum.com> writes:

> 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?

It has come up in the committee, but no-one has made a formal proposal, and
it's too late now.

g++ has had typeof for a very long time; I believe some other compilers
(Metaware?) have similar functionality with a different name.

Jason


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