Boost logo

Boost :

Subject: Re: [boost] AlRangeExandrescu?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-27 07:22:24


on Fri Jul 24 2009, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei-AT-metalanguage.com> wrote:

>> Is popFront() mutable just for efficiency? Or is there something else
>> I'm missing?
>
> It's only efficiency. I was very attracted to popFront returning the
> new range (100% functional interface!) but I gave up for efficiency
> reasons. I didn't want iteration with ranges to be cool and iteration
> with other means to be efficient.

Could you describe the efficiency problem in more detail? I think it
might be solvable.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk