Mathias Gaunard wrote:
I'm writing some piece of software working that does a lot of data structures traversal and that really needed filtering of traversal etc.
I thought I'd get that from Boost.Range, but I was surprised to see Boost.Range provides very little: all the good stuff (the range-based algorithms and adaptors) are in another library, range_ex, which isn't in the main distribution yet.
Will this library be included in Boost soon? It's really great.
As for the open issues, here are my opinions: - Output ranges: don't adaptors already output ranges? - Two input ranges, or a range and an iterator?: two ranges can do more - For any algorithm foo(container, args...), if foo(args...) is valid then it should be called - Null-termination of C-style strings: Isn't that up to Boost.Range to decide whether it's a range or not?
It sounds like you're referring to my old range_ex library in the Algorithms directory in the Boost File Vault, is that right? Somewhat confusingly, there is a *different* range_ex.zip in the Boost File Vault, but at the top-level, here: http://www.boostpro.com/vault/ That one appears to be an extension of my earlier work (which itself was an extension of the work of several others ... range algorithms and adaptors have been a long time in coming). The good news is that this new range_ex library is currently in the review queue. From the review schedule (http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html), it looks like we're still looking for a review manager. Care to volunteer? At the very least, you should have a look at this new version and let us know if it meets your needs. Thanks, -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com