Fwd: STL black magic, was Re: GTK--: Gtk_Notebook::append_page question

[Christof Petig <christof petig wtal de>]

I agree! It looks nicer thought it's fully equivalent.

(quoting from stl_vector.h):
  reference back() { return *(end() - 1); }

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• From: David Hodson <david dfilm com au>
• To: Christof Petig <christof petig wtal de>
• Subject: Re: STL black magic
• Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:45:05 +1000

Christof Petig wrote:
> vector<Gtk_Label> labels;
> {  labels.push_back(Gtk_Label("xyz"));
>     Gtk_Label &recently_created_label=*--(labels.end());
>     recently_created_label.set_alignment(...);
> }
> 

Very black magic. Use:

labels.push_back(Gtk_Label("xyz"));
Gtk_Label& recently_created_label = labels.back();

Much nicer.

-- 
David Hodson  --  david@dfilm.com.au  --  this night wounds time

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