Re: [boost] Standard library Technical Report 2 proposals for Boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Standard library Technical Report 2 proposals for Boost libraries
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-15 07:00:12

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 6 December 2011 11:25, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, iterator_traits is viewed as an anachronism by some influential
>>>> committee members, both because of the lumping of multiple traits into
>>>> a single class and because of the problems using the current
>>>> iterator_traits with SFINAE. So you might want to consider a set of
>>>> replacement traits that follows modern practice. Proposing something
>>>> like that for Boost would be a good start.
>>>
>>> I've never used iterator_traits myself and am not aware of these
>>> problems. Got any pointers? :p
>>
>> These are considered better:
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/iterator_traits.html
>>
>> Separate traits which follow a common convention have proved to be
>> useful in template meta-programming, especially when used with MPL.
>> I'm not sure how C++11 changes things though.
>
> Ticket created: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6240
>
> Are there any plans to propose Boost Iterator for TR2?

Dave?

-- 
Olaf