Re: [Boost-users] iterators must go

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] iterators must go
From: Robert Jones (robertgbjones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-15 16:47:58

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:12 PM, John Dlugosz <JDlugosz_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> > I think a ranges can be used as insertion positions. The element could
> > be inserted just before or after the start of the range. The details
> > have to be worked out, like if it's before or after, and if it's
> > before,
> > if the range grows to include the element.
>
> I thought that Boost has ranges for some time, and the upcoming C++
> standard incorporates them.  So, haven't the details *been* worked out?
>

Boost ranges are really pairs of iterators, so very different beasts from
the
iterators Andrei proposes. Insertion points are still represented as
iterators
rather than ranges in boost.ranges.

- Rob.

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