[boost] Re: String Algo Review Results

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-03 04:00:52

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

> > AFAICT, only size() needs to be specialized for integers which
> > should be easy using typetraits. So the same range class can easily
> > support both iterators and integers.
>
> What about floating point or rationals?

I guess that there are iterators and non-iterators.

> > Moreover, the standard uses half-open ranges of the type
> >
> > [begin,end)
> >
> > where 'begin' is included and 'end' is not. If the argument for not
using
> > the name range for the class is that many different types of ranges
exist,
> > then
> > we should consider if that is a good thing with these many ranges. IMO,
it
> > is not a good thing because all the ranges can be used to describe
> > eachother:
> >
> > [begin,end] = [begin, end + 1 )
> > (begin, end) = [begin +1, end )
> > (begin, end] = [begin + 1, end + 1 )
> >
> > To me it seems that it shall only be necessary with one type of
> > range.
>
> Wrong.  Numerics commonly requires fully-closed and sometimes
> fully-open ranges.

please give me some examples to work with.

> > Bringing more into the picture will only bring confusion.
>
> Are you sure you're not already confused? ;-)

no :-)

-Thorsten