Re: [boost] [range] Is it conceivable to have it extended?

Subject: Re: [boost] [range] Is it conceivable to have it extended?
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-14 01:13:02

On 7/13/2014 9:12 PM, Nathan Ridge wrote:
>> Thanks for the link. I'll certainly have a look... Uhm, it's in Nov. and
>> for C++ standard committee. So, it's in far perspective... and the
>> industry I am in is always a few years behind the Standard. :-( Would
>> not that be possible/sensible to address that in Boost for the time being?
> 
> Last I spoke to Eric, he had no plans to propose his library
> (which, by the way, can be found here [1]) to Boost, but that
> doesn't mean someone else who's willing to do the work couldn't.

Right. I'm not opposed to getting it into Boost. It's just that C++17 is
closer than you might think, and my #1 priority to getting ranges into
the standard.

> I'm curious what Neil thinks of this library as a possible
> future direction for Boost.Range.

Me too.

> [1] https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3

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