Re: [boost] AlRangeExandrescu?

Subject: Re: [boost] AlRangeExandrescu?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-23 10:03:03

David Abrahams skrev:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> I'm sure someone already spoke to you about this, but just in case: 
> Andrei Alexandrescu gave a very interesting presentation at BoostCon 
> that was based on a "ranges only" approach that should eliminate issues 
> like this one:
> 
>   2: return type specification for find() etc
>   ===========================================
>   There where no major objection to the mechanism, but some found
>   the syntax ugly. I believe the suggested syntax (e.g.)
> 
>    boost::find[_f,_e]( range, x )
> 
>    boost::find[_f+1,_e]( range, x )
> 
> 
> He says he's implemented a superset of the STL algorithms with it so we 
> know the expressive power is fairly complete. 

If I remember correctly, he claims that his return of find() is the 
"correct" one. I think that is plain wrong, as the syntax above shows 
that there are many useful return ranges, perhaps with an obvious default.

So the above is not an "issue" IMO, but a usable feature.

-Thorsten