On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 22:55 +0200, Marcus Lindblom wrote:
Hi all,
About half a year ago, I took on the range_ex library from Thorsten Ottosen, aiming to make it ready for review and inclusion in boost. However, a few weeks later I found myself with a 'life' (i.e. girlfriend), so there hasn't been time for any outside-of-work hacking. I feel that range_ex deserves to be completed and would love to do it myself, but time just isn't there at the moment.
range_ex is mostly just a range-ification of <numeric> and <algorithm> (i.e. versions of these functions taking Ranges rather iterator pairs) and I've been using a something similar at work. It really makes good sense to have it in boost.
If anyone is willing to step up to this, let me or Thorsten know. There isn't much work really (most of it is there, just fill in the gaps, make it complete and edit a bit of the documentation). There are a few advanced features that definitely are worth pursuing in the future, but I believe a first barebone release would still improve the life of many c++ hackers. :)
So, let us know if you're interested.
Cheers, /Marcus
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I will do it if I am acceptable. I know a few of you on the list. I am a professional C++ developer and have 17 years professional software development experience. Occasionally I even develop something that works. I have a number of extensions in prototype form for the range algorithm that I wished to put forward at some point in the future. I have for example an optimal resizing mechanism for target containers using template meta-programming. This makes it possible to implement a transform with a container target without forcing the client of the algorithm to continually re-evaluate whether reserve then back_insert is the best implementation, for example. The optimal re-size mechanism is implemented once per container. I have an interest in developing some useful containers to supplement the std containers. I have developed prototypes and I am in the process of taking metrics to back-up my claims that they are interesting to software developers before posting an interest query to the list. I believe these libraries would benefit from careful integration. I would be glad to be of service. Neil Groves Software Developer Irrational Daffodil Ltd.