Re: Add new for_each macros for iterating over a List that do not require ListCell pointer

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:39:01PM +0200, Jelte Fennema wrote:
> Attached is a slightly updated version, with a bit simpler
> implementation of foreach_delete_current.
> Instead of decrementing i and then adding 1 to it when indexing the
> list, it now indexes the list using a postfix decrement.

Both the macros and the comments in 0001 seem quite repetitive to me.
Could we simplify it with something like the following?

#define foreach_internal(var, lst, func) \
for (ForEachState var##__state = {(lst), 0}; \
(var##__state.l != NIL && \
var##__state.i < var##__state.l->length && \
(var = func(&var##__state.l->elements[var##__state.i]), true)); \
var##__state.i++)

#define foreach_ptr(var, lst) foreach_internal(var, lst, lfirst)
#define foreach_int(var, lst) foreach_internal(var, lst, lfirst_int)
#define foreach_oid(var, lst) foreach_internal(var, lst, lfirst_oid)
#define foreach_xid(var, lst) foreach_internal(var, lst, lfirst_xid)

#define foreach_node(type, var, lst) \
for (ForEachState var##__state = {(lst), 0}; \
(var##__state.l != NIL && \
var##__state.i < var##__state.l->length && \
(var = lfirst_node(type, &var##__state.l->elements[var##__state.i]), true));\
var##__state.i++)

There might be a way to use foreach_internal for foreach_node, too, but
this is probably already too magical...

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