Re: [boost] Boost.Range questions

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 06:05:00

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:ull5bnykl.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
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| 1. What does it take to get support for standard containers as ranges?
|   According to what I can see in the documentation, the standard
|   containers don't satisfy the range concepts.  IOW,
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|              begin(v)
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|   isn't valid when v is a standard vector.
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|   From what I can tell from browsing the implementation, the
|   requirement should be:
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|               boost::begin(v)

doens't it seem strange that a concept requirement is bound to a certain 
namespace?

|   and the default behavior of boost::begin needs to be documented.

it's documented in another document. I provided linke to in in the
CVS version some time ago after you requrested it.

| 2. http://www.boost.org/libs/range/doc/style.html mentions
|   SwappableRange.  What is that and where is it defined?  The only
|   things I can imagine it meaning are highly counterintuitive.

the document talks about terminology. A swappable range would be
a range where the iterators are swappable.

| 3. Where did you put the documentation that describes the conformance
|   of built-in strings, arrays, etc. to the Range concepts?

in the "Implementation of range concepts".

-Thorsten