What to do after Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Johann Hibschman wrote:

> Really?  Any language that encourages
> 
> vector<double>::iterator end = vec->end();
> vector<double> out(vec->size);
                              ^
Oops.

> for(vector<double>::const_iterator i = vec->begin(),
>     vector<double>::iterator j = out->begin();
>     i != end;
>     ++i, ++j) {
>   *j = (*i)*(*i);
> }
> 
> as the right way to square a vector is, well, not quite the way I'd
> want to do that.

You mean generate another vector whose elements contain the squares of
the first vector.  The usual meaning of "squaring a vector" would
involve vector reduction.

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