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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 28 Aug 2004 07:17:24 -0700
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<1093634083.931713@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>...
> Kevin Cline wrote:
>  > A single C++ template function call like this one:
> >     merge(c1.begin(), c1.end(), c2.begin(), c2.end(), c3.back_inserter());
> > would require half a dozen lines of Ada just for the function instantiation.
> 
> No fair picking an easy one. Suppose you have a vector of complex numbers and
> want to set the real part of each to zero. That's far from a one liner in C++
> even though it's conceptually trivial.

With boost::lambda, it would be a one liner:
    for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), _1.r = 0);