Re: [Boost-Users] new component, extent_set<>

From: David A. Greene (greened_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-26 20:19:25

Nathan Myers wrote:

> boost::extent_set<> implements a set of half-open ranges on a scalar 
> type, with automatic splitting and merging, appropriate for managing 
> ranges of disk blocks or video frames.  In use it looks like:

Cool!  Why "extent_set" though?  What about range_set or interval_set?

Any way this could be adapted to allow non-scalar ranges?  What are
the requirements on the range element type?  I would think anything
less-than-comparable should be useable but I didn't implement the
class.  :)

Is there a way to control when ranges are combined (maybe sometimes
I want [10, 20) and [20, 30) to stay separate)?  A policy for this
would be nice.

                              -Dave

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