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    <h2  >History and Acknowledgement</h2><a name="History" ></a>
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    The library have been under way for a long time. Dietmar Kühl originally 
    intended to submit an <code  >array_traits</code> class template which 
    had most of the functionality present now, but only for arrays and standard 
    containers. 
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    Meanwhile work on algorithms for containers in various contexts showed the 
    need for handling pairs of iterators, and string libraries needed special 
    treatment of character arrays. In the end it made sense to formalize the 
    minimal requirements of these similar concepts. And the results are the 
    Range concepts found in this library. </p>
    
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    The term Range was adopted because of paragraph <code>24.1/7</code> from the 
C++ standard: <blockquote>
  Most of the library's algorithmic templates that operate on data
  structures have interfaces that use ranges.  A <i>range</i> is a pair of
  iterators that designate the beginning and end of the computation. A
  range [i, i) is an empty range; in general, a range [i, j) refers to
  the elements in the data structure starting with the one pointed to
  by i and up to but not including the one pointed to by j. Range [i,
  j) is valid if and only if j is reachable from i. The result of the
  application of functions in the library to invalid ranges is
  undefined.
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    Special thanks goes to    
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        <li> Pavol Droba for help with documentation and implementation
        <li> Pavel Vozenilek for help with porting the library
        <li> Jonathan Turkanis and John Torjo for help with documentation    
        <li> Hartmut Kaiser for being review manager
        <li> Jonathan Turkanis for porting the lib (as far sa possible) to
             vc6 and vc7.
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    (C) Copyright Thorsten Ottosen 2003-2005
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