Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] New algorithm in Boost.Algorithm: "gather" -- looking for comments

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] New algorithm in Boost.Algorithm: "gather" -- looking for comments
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-24 11:26:56

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Also, std::remove looks similar to gather when the gathered elements
> are put to the end of the sequence.

it does look similar but..

std::remove does not have the requirement to preserve all the entries in the sequence.
std::remove can leave the "removed" entries in an unknown state (overwritten? moved from? copied?)

Otherwise you could just write std::remove as std::stable_partition ;-)

-- Marshall

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