Re: [boost] [Range] New I/O functions for ranges

Subject: Re: [boost] [Range] New I/O functions for ranges
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-29 13:24:24

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> Subject: [boost] [Range] New I/O functions for ranges
> 
> I'm currently putting together a proposal to the standards committee about a
set of
> range I/O functions, but i think they would make a good addition to Boost as
well.
> They would probably fit in the Range library - i don't think they warrant a
library all of
> their own.
> 
> The stuff i wrote for the standards proposal is available at
> http://cpp.indi.frih.net/rangeio/ - it goes into quite a bit of detail about
the
> interface, and links to a sample implementation. But here's the executive
summary:
> 
> There is a single output function - currently called "write_all" - that takes
a range
> and, optionally, a delimiter, like this:

<snip>

Though I haven't studied it in detail it is interesting and undoubtedly useful.

It is certainly absurdly difficult to output containers in C++ (and something
that must put lots of people off using it).

I suspect the trouble is that people can't agree on what is needed because there
are so many possible options.

I wonder if you have studied the examples of Steven Watanbe's type erasure
library?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/boost_typeerasure.html

I found this useful, but it didn't cover all the options that I wanted, so I
added a prefix string and a suffix string to the existing delimiter string.

I would urge you to consider this as it increases the possible use-cases covered
considerably.

In particular, it is seems desirable to be able to output values in the C++
syntax for the compiler to read back in?

For your amusement, I attached some of hoops that I made  'printers' derived
from Steven Watanbe's type erasure abstract sequence printer jump through.

Good luck.

Paul

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