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From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-21 13:37:44


Eric Niebler <eric <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:

>
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> >
> > what about a BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH ?
> >
>
> Hey, the formal review hasn't started yet! Actually, I don't think
> BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH is the right way to approach this. I'd rather see
> this done with range adaptors:
>
> BOOST_FOREACH( int i, adaptor::reverse(vect) )
> {
> }
>
> ... where adaptor::reverse() returns an iterator_range<> (from
> Boost.Range) of reverse_iterator<> (from Boost.Iterator).

yeah, right, seems better.

> I'm working on a set of range adaptors, which I hope to add to
> boost-sandbox after Christmas. This would be a separate library from
> BOOST_FOREACH, but it would work well with it.

ok, be sure to check with John Torjo to see if you don't overlap
too much in functionality with his range adaptors. If there is
filter_iterator, then he has a filter_range and a filtered() function etc.

-Thorsten


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