suppose we have following function:
void someFunction(int * araye){
for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
cout <<araye[i]<<' ';
cout <<'\n';
}
can we pass an array to this function by following syntax, under upcoming c++0x standards? :
someFunction({1,2,3,4,5});
if that's true, will we even be able to use this syntax in any case in which, array elements are from POD types like below :
class Test{
int adad1;
int adad2;
};
void someFunction(Test * araye){
for (int i=0;i<3;i++)
cout <<araye[i].adad1<<'-'<<araye[i].adad2<<' ';
cout <<'\n';
}
someFunction({{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}});
Edit->after what people said:
So you guys are telling that the expression between braces will be basically treated as an initializer_list and are proposing using an extra function that pulls a pointer out of that initializer_list and passes it to the intended function, but this method seems to me like a hack to be able to use my intended function with that expression as an argument, with that said I think I shouldn't use that expression as an argument at all, when my intended function parameter is a single pointer, or there might be another approach to use that expression? .
The type of the expression {1,2,3,4,5}
is std::initializer_list<int>
. It's an object which has member functions size()
, begin()
, end()
, but no operator[]
(per 18.9/1
of the C++0x FCD)
If your function took std::vector or any other standard container, this would work because containers can be constructed from initializer_lists (they all provide non-explicit constructors that take them):
void someFunction(std::vector<int> araye)
{
for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
std::cout << araye[i] <<' ';
std::cout <<'\n';
}
int main()
{
someFunction({1,2,3,4,5});
}
If you want to have a function that takes a pointer, you will need to somehow manually convert an initializer_list into something that you can access in such manner:
void someFunction(int* araye)
{
for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
std::cout << araye[i] <<' ';
std::cout <<'\n';
}
void someFunction(std::vector<int> v)
{
someFunction(&v[0]);
}
int main()
{
someFunction({1,2,3,4,5});
}
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