2007/11/13, Hervé Brönnimann <hervebronnimann@mac.com>:
Ben: Before you do any substantial work, please check my proposal. I have tried to provide background / explanations, and a set of coherent interfaces. Please look at:
http://photon.poly.edu/~hbr/boost/combinations.html
The code in the .hpp (linked) is only temporary and not debugged. I am in the process of writing test cases. I'm happy to send it to you too... Keep in mind it is work in progress. I have a job and am spending far too much time on this at the moment :) --HB
PS: I am not sure about the Incrementor/Decrementor interfaces, unless I can come up with a convincing example where the underlying type is not int and does not have operator++ and operator--, but it still makes sense to count with it...
I agree with the eight "Without repetition" functions. But the "With Repetition", I think that providing classes, such as class gacap::repeat_permutation, is better than functions. I had not thought how to privide functions about repetition version. It's new thing to me. I'll read this proposal. It's a little long for me.