From: Lois Goldthwaite (loisg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-10 07:03:18
I've often thought it would add to the intuitive obviosity of this
algorithm if it had been named copy_removing_if instead!
Lois
> Message: 25
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:29:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: "John E. Potter" <jpotter_at_[hidden]>
> Subject: Re: copy_if
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> > I just went through the SGI STL site looking for an algorithm fitting
> > the following description:
> >
> > Given a sequence s, a predicate p, and an output iterator r,
> > copies the elements e of s for which p(e) is true to the range
> > beginning with r.
>
> remove_copy_if(b, e, r, notP);
>
> Make a copy of what is left after removing the things for which
> notP is true.
>
> Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer ;-)
>
> John
>