Re: Interest in updated, standalone iterator_facade library?

From: Jérémy Coulon (jeremy.coulon.jrmc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-11 08:13:34

Hello

I am using boost iterator_facade currently and an updated version would be
welcome.

I couldn't tell from your documentation what are the compiler requirements
of your library. Is it C++14 or C++17 compatible? Does it need C++20?

Le dim. 11 août 2019 à 04:21, Zach Laine via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> a écrit :

> I write a lot of iterators, and I'm getting sick of doing it by hand.  I
> can't use Boost.Iterator's iterator_facade in library code, since it knows
> nothing about constexpr and noexcept.
>
> The design of Boost.Iterator's iterator_facade does not lend itself very
> well to being modified in a direction that is standardization-friendly
> (reasons why are outlined in the online docs).
>
> So, here is one take on this problem:
>
> GitHub:
> https://github.com/tzlaine/iterator_facade
>
> Online Docs:
> https://tzlaine.github.io/iterator_facade
>
> For those unfamiliar with the problem, iterators are very simple, at the
> highest level of abstraction.  An iterator's implementation does not
> reflect this -- it is highly repetitive and easy to get subtly wrong.  This
> library fixes that.
>
> The library is forward-looking, since I intend to write WG21 papers to
> standardize iterator_facade; there is good support for upcoming C++20
> library features.  In particular, the iterators created with
> iterator_facade model the C++20 iterator concepts, and therefore do not
> necessarily match the requirements of the C++17-and-earlier requirement
> tables.  I have not found this to affect the usability of
> iterator-facade-based iterators with pre-C++20 code.
>
> Something to note: there was a recent-ish attempt to stanrdize
> iterator_facade, which is now abandoned, P0186 (http://wg21.link/P0186).
> This was very different from what I'm proposing for Boost.  I talked to
> Eric Niebler about this, and he favors a return to the CRTP-based approach
> of my lib and the original Boost.Iterator iterator_facade library.
>
> Zach
>
>
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