On 10/1/2015 11:18 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
From the days that I used to frequent comp.lang.c++.moderated (before around 2009 or so), I remember an individual who was trying to sell the idea of ranges to the C++ community. As I remember, nobody took him seriously at that time. Reading the page above, I think that individual must have been John Torjo or Matthew Wilson.
It was Andrei's talk "Iterators Must Go" that was the turning point for C++ to start paying attention to ranges.
C++ was inspirational to D in the foundational work with iterators. But iterators are not ranges, and I don't see evidence that C++ had ranges before D. Boost ranges are not what we think of as ranges.
It is true that Matthew first implemented ranges in C++, and then D. But the C++ version never got any interest from the C++ community, and went nowhere. I am credited with helping Matthew in the CUJ article talking about his range library. What I helped with was a D design, which he then implemented in C++ :-(
There's probably more in the thousands of emails I have, but I don't want to spend more time spelunking them.
