At Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:59:05 -0500, Anthony Foglia wrote:
What happened to the patch to add a boost::advance function designed to work with Boost.Iterator's concepts?
Three years ago there was a thread pointing out the problem with std::advance not treating random access traversal iterators as random access (because of the reference type). Sebastian Redl posted a patch to add a boost::advance (and boost::distance) function. http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/09/127785.php I don't see any proof of this patch ever being applied.
Someone filed a bug report two years ago to bring attention to the patch, and it still hasn't been applied. https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2539
Is there a reason it hasn't been applied (the collision with the boost::distance supplied by Boost.Range?) or has it just fallen through the cracks?
Probably just fell through the cracks, which have grown rather large, I'm afraid. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com