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From: Shunsuke Sogame (mb2act_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-23 06:14:40


Daniel Walker wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Shunsuke Sogame <mb2act_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> BTW, I found a bug:
>> <boost/range/concepts.hpp> seems to
>> apply 'boost::size' to Forward Range.
>
> If I recall correctly applying boost::size() was intentional. size(r)
> is a valid expression for the ForwardRange concept, and I believe
> Thorsten didn't want ADL to kick in, so in the concept check
> implementation boost:: is used to qualify all the functions.
> boost::size() eventually dispatches either a size() member of the
> range object or std::distance().

Updated cvs shows 'boost::size' uses 'operator-' ?
I somewhat wonder why 'boost::size' and
'boost::range_size' are not deprecated
like 'boost::range_result_iterator'.

-- 
Shunsuke Sogame

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