Re: [boost] Is Boost.Range broken?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost.Range broken?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-23 07:41:57

David Abrahams skrev:
> on Sat Nov 22 2008, "Dave Handley" <dave-AT-dah.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>>> My guess is that they're Thorsten's attempt to avoid silent breakage.
>>> Whether or not the attempt was well-executed is another matter, but I
>>> can understand why he might have done it: he realized that the original
>>> design was wrong, and rather than silently letting people get away with
>>> using it in ways that were to become illegal, he detected the
>>> newly-illegal usage in the only way possible, at runtime.
>> Newly illegal usage should always be documented as such - and in this
>> instance I'm not convinced it was.
> 
> It should be easy enough to verify one way or another.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't documented.

But if you do use a non-documented public function, you're on your own.
I think it is made public as a work-around. I didn't want to batle with 
compilers different interpretations of friends and templates.

-Thorsten