[boost] Re: token_iterator comments, suggestions

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-06 00:12:51

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:uhdtpqogn.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...

| > I'm not sure I understand. Could you give an example?
|
| It sounds like you're saying that algorithms that traffic in ranges
| shouldn't also deal in iterators (I could be mistaken), but it seems
| to me that for some algorithms (e.g. lower_bound), operating on a
| range and returning an iterator is just right.

yeah, I'm saying that algorithms that traffic in ranges (eg vector<T>) and return iterator pairs should
return

range< vector<T> >

and not

iterator_range< typename iterator_of< vector<T> >::type >

br

Thorsten