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Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost.Range broken?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-23 07:54:54


David Abrahams skrev:
> on Sat Nov 22 2008, Tomas Puverle <Tomas.Puverle-AT-morganstanley.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I think a lot of people on this forum are missing the point: I'm not
>> claiming that the old behaviour is in some way better or worse.
>> I am saying the following:
>> 1) Is the behavioural change too much of a diversion from previous expected
>> (documented) functionality that the new change is in fact a defect
>
> We haven't established that, IMO. Unless I missed it, nobody has shown
> where in the old documentation it was stated that a default-constructed
> iterator range is empty.

Well, I think the docs stated that if( rng ) was valid, and conversion
to bool was based on .empty().

-Thorsten


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