Is Iterator initialization inside for loop considered bad style, and why?

Question

Typically you will find STL code like this:

for (SomeClass::SomeContainer::iterator Iter = m_SomeMemberContainerVar.begin(); Iter != m_SomeMemberContainerVar.end         


        

Answer 1

I don't think it's bad style at all. Just use typedefs to avoid the STL verbosity and long lines.

typedef set AppleSet;
typedef AppleSet::iterator  AppleIter;
AppleSet  apples;

for (AppleIter it = apples.begin (); it != apples.end (); ++it)
{
   ...
}

Spartan Programming is one way to mitigate your style concerns.