On 04/28/2015 05:53 PM, Stefano Forli wrote: > Modifying what you're iterating is a terrible practice most of the > times, and punishment is deserved.
C++ iterators are pointers, modifying them is how it works. It's python that's horrible. ... Nevertheless that's valid Python > code, and the segmentation fault could a bit too much. Nope. "for i in (1,2,3) : i = 4" does nothing because i is a copy of a value on the stack. "for i in (a, b, c) : i.x = 4" will modify i.x just fine because i is a copy of a pointer to an object on the heap. It's one of the side-effects of garbage collection they don't tell you about unless you're a Comp.Sci. student. If you use a garbage-collected language as front-end to non-garbage-collected library code, all bets are off. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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