Re: [Boost-users] Whence Ranges?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Whence Ranges?
From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-07 08:07:12

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Le 06/07/2010 21:58, John Dlugosz wrote:
>> 1) Given the existance 
>> of<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1871.html>, 
>> should<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Technical_Report_1#Technical_Report_2>  
>> include "Boost Range Library" on the list of things proposed for TR2?
>>
>> 2) Is it going well?  That is, should I expect this to be standardized 
>> eventually, or have the library workers moved away from it somehow?
>>
>> 3) I've run into various other things like "rangeEx" and "oven" that 
>> are what?  Extensions?  Rewrites?  What's out there that I ought to 
>> look into, for foundational use in new code?
> 
> Note RangeEx has been merged with Range since Boost 1.42.
> 
> Oven is a library that extends Boost.Range. It provides more than 
> Boost.Range and Boost.RangeEx combined, and seems to have better 
> documentation, implementation and tests, but somehow was never 
> considered to be included into Boost.

IIRC, it was under review and withdrawn by the author.

Jeff