Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei <at> metalanguage.com> writes:
Another example of an iterator-based design that's not easy to replicate with ranges is Boost Multi-Index. (Thanks Emil Dotchevski for pointing that out during my talk. (Marshall Clow promised the video will be available Real Real Soon Now(tm).)) In Multi-Index, indexes store iterators; storing ranges would often waste twice the space for little or no benefit.
Hi, I'm afraid I'm lacking the background to understand the discussion, but why is Boost.MultiIndex any different to other STL containers? What's the particular functionality that's posing the problem? Maybe I can answer this to myself if you could refer me to some material I can read in order to fully understand your proposals. Thank you, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo