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Subject: Re: [boost] AlRangeExandrescu?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-25 00:28:36


on Fri Jul 24 2009, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei-AT-metalanguage.com> wrote:

> Another example of an iterator-based design that's not easy to
> replicate with ranges is Boost Multi-Index. (Thanks Emil Dotchevski
> for pointing that out during my talk. (Marshall Clow promised the
> video will be available Real Real Soon Now(tm).)) In Multi-Index,
> indexes store iterators; storing ranges would often waste twice the
> space for little or no benefit.

Can't you handle that by storing a range that always contains only one
element: [iterator,iterator+1)?

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