[boost] Re: [Range] issues

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-02 19:56:19

David Abrahams wrote:
> I was just looking at using Boost.Range in my new Sequence library and
> noticed the following:

>   4. Having a pile of names prefixed by "range_" (like
>      boost::range_const_iterator) just seems wrong to me when we have
>      namespaces.  Is there a good reason we're not using
>      boost::range::const_iterator or boost::ranges::const_iterator?

I think I'm partially responsible for this. Originally Thorsten was using the
names value_type_of, difference_of, iterator_of, etc, and I pointed out that the
iterator library uses the names iterator_xxx for similar metafunctions. I
believe there was extensive discussion about it at the time.

Jonathan