Re: [boost] [iterator][range] Synchronization on 'master'

Subject: Re: [boost] [iterator][range] Synchronization on 'master'
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-16 17:23:56

Robert Ramey wrote:

> I understand all this.  Seems to me that a mistake was made when these 
> headers got transformed into forwarding headers to the standard library.

These headers predate the Iterator library. They were never what you want 
them to be. They never got transformed from what you want them to be into 
something else. They have always been a compatibility hack for deficient 
standard libraries, a hack that is no longer relevant.