James Porter wrote:
To be honest, I'd really love to see a ground-up redesign of the STL that uses ranges and takes advantage of some of the other niceties that modern C++ (especially 0x) can provide us. The loss of concepts makes this lose its luster a bit, but perhaps a complete redesign of the STL with concepts in mind (as opposed to trying to put concepts into the current STL) would help to give some insight on how concepts *should* work. This is also a pet peeve of mine. Rebuilding STL w/r to all the thin we know how to do in a proper way now comapred to 198x. Maybe some effort could be put on these.
I've hesitated on doing much with this, since I'm still trying to figure out a place for multidimensional containers in all this, and they don't map quite so easily onto the concept of ranges (especially with respect to for loops, which are by definition a one-dimensional sequence). What about saying that such containers can be walked using a set fo ranges, one per dimension and let then generate nested for loop for each range ?