Re: [Boost-users] Boost range changes [1.37.0]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost range changes [1.37.0]
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-20 10:31:08

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:20, Robert Jones <robertgbjones_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Thorsten Ottosen
> <thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> An there is a difference between an empty range and a singular range.
>>
>
> Sorry to lower the tone, but can someone please explain exactly what a
> singular range is?
>

Presumably a range where at least one of the ends is a singular
iterator, so roughly a range object that doesn't have an
associated sequence of values.

See 24.1/5 for a precise definition.  (Draft available here, if needed:
http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/lib-iterators.html)