Re: [boost] [Range] Confusing result of iterator_range::size()

Subject: Re: [boost] [Range] Confusing result of iterator_range::size()
From: Sergey Voropaev (serge-voropaev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-03 04:12:16

Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. <jeffrey.hellrung <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> This came up just recently, e.g.,
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/224758
Sorry, I miss it. Good discussion. And now we have my example with compilation
error.
> 
> I think the end result was an agreement that
> 
> typedef typename boost::make_unsigned< difference_type >::type size_type
> 
> would be a valid definition of size_type, so the only argument against
> making the change that I can see is breaking existing code (probably
> unlikely...?) and...inertia.

I did not find authors of "Range" in the discussion. I am afraid your fix will
be missed. It is good idea to write formal bug. Can you do it?

Sergey Voropaev