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Doc: Give advice on foreach vs range-based for

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Task-number: QTBUG-41636
Change-Id: I28c1424e7f4c1c4da596bcae66283b60f471a8ee
Reviewed-by: Martin Smith <martin.smith@digia.com>
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Kai Koehne 2015-06-26 16:57:32 +02:00
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container. It only affects the copy, which is probably not what you
want.
An alternative to Qt's \c foreach loop is the range-based \c for that is
part of C++ 11 and newer. However, keep in mind that the range-based
\c for might force a Qt container to \l{Implicit Sharing}{detach}, whereas
\c foreach would not. But using \c foreach always copies the container,
which is usually not cheap for STL containers. If in doubt, prefer
\c foreach for Qt containers, and range based \c for for STL ones.
In addition to \c foreach, Qt also provides a \c forever
pseudo-keyword for infinite loops: