Re: [boost] [Iterators] Iterators and higher-order programming

Subject: Re: [boost] [Iterators] Iterators and higher-order programming
From: Thomas Jordan (thomasjordan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-07 05:04:15

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
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From: Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]>
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Subject: Re: [boost] [Iterators] Iterators and higher-order
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Thomas Jordan a ?crit :
> Hi, 
> One of the interesting things about the iterators library, it seems to me, is the additional support it gives for higher-order, 
> functional-style programming. For example, you can use the transform and filter iterators to produce a simple 'Comprehension' object 
> which permits list-comprehension type of syntax to be used, instead of conventional loops 

You might want to look at the range library then, which has been 
recently modified to add support for things like:

some_range | transformed(f) | filtered(p)
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Thanks/merci, Mathias (and apologies for my late reply), I am now looking at 1.43.0 Boost::Range!

T.