Re: [boost] [Review:Algorithms] is_ordered name

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review:Algorithms] is_ordered name
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-24 14:27:06

on Sat Sep 24 2011, Brent Spillner <spillner-AT-acm.org> wrote:

> There is of course a convenience counterargument, that for
> ForwardIterators it's easier to compute the value of 'next' (if that's
> what you really want) given the value of 'last' than it is to compute
> the value of 'last' from the value of 'next', and that's probably what
> Marshall had in mind.  

Yeah, that's more than just an issue of convenience: it's about
capability.  There's a principle at work here: "don't throw away useful
information."  <== That statement of course presumes that knowing the
position of the last ordered element is useful.

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Dave Abrahams
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