Re: [boost] [algorithm] Review Request: edit_distance

Subject: Re: [boost] [algorithm] Review Request: edit_distance
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-28 22:08:27

On Jan 28, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Erik Erlandson <eje_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>> Documentation:
>>> http://erikerlandson.github.io/algorithm/libs/algorithm/doc/html/algorithm/Sequence.html
>> 
>> I realize that your documentation is for an algorithm, and not a library, but
>> you would do well to give use cases to which it applies and even flesh out
>> one of them in a tutorial. 
> 
> Both of those seem like good ideas.  I've had an idea for a tutorial in the back of my mind, where I would write a rudimentary unix-diff style program.  
> 
> That reminds me of a question.  One angle I thought would be fun is if I could use a range (or iterator) that iterates directly over lines in a text file (analogous to how you can say "for line in File" in python).  Mostly just to show that you can use any exotic kind of range you want to.   I don't know if such an iterator exists, or if it is forward and not just single-pass.  It seems like something somebody would have already written, but my googling hasn't turned one up.

Eric Niebler had a blog post about this just a few months ago.

         http://ericniebler.com/2013/10/13/out-parameters-vs-move-semantics/

— Marshall