Chapter 1. Range 2.0

Boost C++ Libraries

Chapter 1. Range 2.0

Thorsten Ottosen

Neil Groves

Copyright © 2003 -2010 Thorsten Ottosen, Neil Groves

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Range Concepts

Overview
Single Pass Range
Forward Range
Bidirectional Range
Random Access Range
Concept Checking

Metafunctions
Functions

Range Adaptors

Introduction and motivation
Synopsis
General Requirements
Reference

Range Algorithm

Introduction and motivation
Mutating algorithms
Non-mutating algorithms
Set algorithms
Heap algorithms
Permutation algorithms
New algorithms
Numeric algorithms

Provided Ranges

counting_range
istream_range
irange

Extending the library

Method 1: provide member functions and nested types
Method 2: provide free-standing functions and specialize metafunctions
Method 3: provide range adaptor implementations

Class iterator_range
Class sub_range
Function join

Terminology and style guidelines

Library Headers

MFC/ATL (courtesy of Shunsuke Sogame)

Requirements
MFC Ranges
ATL Ranges
const Ranges
References

Upgrade version of Boost.Range

Upgrade from version 1.42
Upgrade from version 1.34

Portability

History and Acknowledgement

Boost.Range is a collection of concepts and utilities that are particularly useful for specifying and implementing generic algorithms.

Last revised: April 08, 2010 at 18:38:56 GMT