Re: [boost] lifetime of ranges vs. iterators

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-02 14:27:03

on Tue Sep 02 2008, "Giovanni Piero Deretta" <gpderetta-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

>> You're missing my point.  Are you indeed making such stacks?  If so,
>> what are you doing with them?
>
> The deepest stack I have in my application is 4 adapters deep. The
> reasons I do not have deeper stack are:
>
> 1) compile time cost
> 2) lack of auto and decltype for easy factorization (need to 'reify'
> the ranges at function boundaries)
> 3) lack of time to make additional lazy wrappers for standard algorithm.
>
> I expect that with a C++0x compiler 1 [*] and 2 won't be a problem,
> while RangeEx should take care of 3.
>
> The usage is in a real world text processing heavy application.

Great, but what are you doing with these stacks?  Normally, the answer
would be something like "I'm applying the X algorithm to a range of
elements that represent Y but have been adapted to look like Z"

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Dave Abrahams
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