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<title>Boost.Range Terminology and Style Guidelines </title>
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<td ><img src="cboost.gif" border="0" ></td>
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<td ><h1 align="center">Boost.Range </h1></td>
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<h2>Terminology and style guidelines </h2>
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<p>
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The use of a consistent terminology is as important for <a href="range.html#range">Range</a>s
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and range-based algorithms as it is for iterators and iterator-based algorithms.
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If a conventional set of names are adopted, we can avoid misunderstandings and
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write generic function prototypes that are <i>self-documenting</i>.
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Since ranges are characterized by a specific underlying iterator type, we get a
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type of range for each type of iterator. Hence we can speak of the following
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types of ranges:
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<ul>
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<li>
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<i>Value access</i> category:
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<ul>
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<li>
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Readable Range
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<li>
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Writeable Range
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<li>
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Swappable Range
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<li>
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Lvalue Range
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<i>Traversal</i> category:
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<li>
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<a href="range.htm#single_pass_range">Single Pass Range</a>
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<li>
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<a href="range.htm#forward_range">Forward Range</a>
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<a href="range.htm#bidirectional_range">Bidirectional Range</a>
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<a href="range.htm#random_access_range">Random Access Range</a>
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</ul>
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Notice how we have used the categories from the <a href=../../iterator/doc/new-iter-concepts.html>new
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style iterators</a>.
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Notice that an iterator (and therefore an range) has one <i>traversal</i>
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property and one or more properties from the <i>value access</i> category. So in
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reality we will mostly talk about mixtures such as
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<ul>
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Random Access Readable Writeable Range
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Forward Lvalue Range
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By convention, we should always specify the <i>traversal</i> property first as
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done above. This seems reasonable since there will only be one <i>traversal</i>
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property, but perhaps many <i>value access</i> properties.
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<p>
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As an example, consider how we specify the interface of <code>std::sort()</code>.
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The iterator-based version looks like this:
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template< class RandomAccessTraversalReadableWritableIterator >
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void sort( RandomAccessTraversalReadableWritableIterator first,
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RandomAccessTraversalReadableWritableIterator last );
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For ranges the interface becomes
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template< class RandomAccessReadableWritableRange >
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void sort( RandomAccessReadableWritableRange& r );
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<p>
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(C) Copyright Thorsten Ottosen 2003-2004
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