Here's my general take on it: iterators are important and useful as the lower-level infrastructure. iterators are, however, not too user-friendly; the user-friendly interface can be build on top so easy task becomes , well, easy. and that is the
"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote in message news:cmrk1g$f70$1@sea.gmane.org... purpose
of ranges and johns range library. without a good iterator library underneith ranges where hard to craft, but now that we have a good iterator library, we should persue higher abstractions
I agree that iterators aren't that easy or intuitive to work with. So our motivations have much in common. My view is that iterators can be made easier to work with without changing their fundamental character and without the need to introduce what I see as a new concept (ranges) that is "almost the same" as an existing concept - pair of iterators. Robert Ramey