Re: [boost] Re: [Formal review] Collection Traits library

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-06 06:05:30

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:15:56AM -0500, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Thorsten Ottosen writes:
> 
> > "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:073d01c43295$1d7354b0$6401a8c0_at_metacomm.com...
> > | Pavol Droba writes:
> >
> > | > You are not quite right. Sequence concept is precisely defined in C++ standard.
> > |
> > | Yes, and that's unfortunate, because it is essentially a dead concept -- "nobody"
> > | writes generic code that relies on it -- that has occupied a good name. In fact,
> > | "Collection" is exactly the word that would perfectly fit to describe what the
> > | standard choose to refer to as "Sequence". I don't think going the other way
> > | around would be a good call.
> >
> > what would you use for sequence then?
> 
> Well, I don't have an ultimate answer, but here's a couple of candidates:
> 
>     Range
>     Iterator Range
>     View
>     Series
>     Succession
> 
Please, add Enumerable to the list.

Pavol