[boost] Re: [range] breaking changes

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-04 12:24:04

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Have anybody any last objections to breaking changes to boost.range:
> 
>     boost::range_iterator<T>::type
> 
> becomes
> 
>     boost::range::iterator<T>::type
> 
> and so forth. All code that relies on
> ADL inside the range library by overloading the functions begin() etc
> will need to be renamed range_begin() etc.

Sorry I was unresponsive for a few days but I was travelling. I still 
think this is the wrong way to do it. One reason is that it requires 
every library X that wants to interface with the range lib to uglify its 
interface by the range_ prefix. AFAICS there are two ways out of this

a) X provides the unprefixed begin as well.
b) X requires the use of boost.range in order to have a "natural" interface

I really think this is bad. If we want to have adl wrappers these should 
carry the prefixes.

What did I miss?

Thomas

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Thomas Witt
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