Re: [boost] Interest in a octet iterators library (was: [MD5] nowin the vault)

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-07 11:16:28

Kevin Sopp wrote:

>> The last observation sparked the idea of introducing a simple
>> abstraction layer I call octet iterators.
>
> It sounds interesting but I doubt there are many people who would use
> it to iterate over homogeneous binary data. Maybe there is an audience
> for endian conversion functions which anyone has written or seen at
> least once ;)

This seems to be similar to the "Dataflow iterators" which are part
of the serialization library.

Robert Ramey