[boost] Re: [range] Collection Concept

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-02 10:51:51

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:un008zsze.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
| "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

| > what code?
|
| For example, the Multi Array library uses the collection concept.  In
| addition to code, you'd need to update the docs.

ok, sorry...I did not know that it was actually used in boost.multiarray...the version I found of the docs
was in the files section.

| > | Sounds like Collection is a
| > | refinement of Range.
| >
| > well, I dropped the external/internal concept definitions in the
| > range docs, so currently ranges are defined by free-standing
| > functions and metafunctions and not members.
|
| If you have generalized free-standing functions/metafunctions that
| work for STL collections, they should work for the Collection concept
| too.

yes, of course. but that doesn't make a collection a refinement of a range.

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Thorsten