How to break or continue from a lambda loop? -- Vittorio Romeo

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How to break or continue from a lambda loop?

by Vittorio Romeo

From the article:

Here’s an encapsulation challenge that I frequently run into: how to let users iterate over an internal data structure without leaking implementation details, but still giving them full control over the loop?

Implementing a custom iterator type requires significant boilerplate and/or complexity, depending on the underlying data structure.

Coroutines are simple and elegant, but the codegen is atrocious – definitely unsuitable for hot paths.

 

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