Re: [boost] [range] iterator_range operators are too greedy

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] iterator_range operators are too greedy
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-08 05:11:49

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> iterator_range operators are defined like this:
>
> template< class IteratorT, class ForwardRange >
> inline bool operator==( const ForwardRange& l,
>                         const iterator_range<IteratorT>& r )
> {
>     return boost::equal( l, r );
> }
>
> These needs to be restricted with enable_if on type of first argument.
> I have a scenario where I want to define operator== for my own type
> and want to be able to use it with iterator_range as second argument.
> Above definition makes it impossible.

Is this related to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6715?
Sadly not a single response from the Range maintainers.

-- 
Olaf