Question

Currently in a large c++ project we are working on we have a bunch of the new style for loops like the following:

for (auto& value : values)

Up till now we have been compiling exclusively with gcc 4.6. Recently some of the codebase is being ported to windows and some of the developers want to compile in msvc++ 10 but it seems as though the new for loop syntax is not fully supported yet.

It would be highly desirable to not have to re-write all the places where this syntax occurs.

What is the best way to work around this problem?

Update: It looks as though this issue is resolved in MSVC11.

Answer 1

You could use Boost.Foreach:

//Using Xeo's example:
BOOST_FOREACH (auto& e, values) {
    std::cout << e << " ";
}