From 4877637149151342012 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,1130da7a3640a78c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!news0.de.colt.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com (Thorsten Ottosen) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Deprecate the use of plain pointers as standard container iterators Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 03:44:44 GMT Lines: 40 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <445d282c$0$67259$157c6196@dreader2.cybercity.dk> References: <1146830242.416436.272780@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1146842605.957240.37860@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <445bb6ab$0$60786$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> <4c2kp3F13dairU1@individual.net> <445c5fe3$0$60784$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1146973490 23149 158.152.254.254 (7 May 2006 03:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 03:44:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id k473iiVk010499; Sun, 7 May 2006 13:44:44 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:1805 David Abrahams wrote: > thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com (Thorsten Ottosen) writes: > > >>Alf P. Steinbach wrote: >> >>>* Thorsten Ottosen: >> >>>>Please see >>>> >>>>http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1870.html#add-iterator-utilities-from-boost >>>> >>> >>>Titled "Crazy ideas", but they're not at all crazy. Change the >>>title. >> >>I think people can see beyond the title. I may add that few would see them as crazy and that most people can recognize that the issues there are real. > > Probably not very well. It sets up an expectation that the proposal > isn't to be taken very seriously. So you would name it "14 serious ideas for C++"? :-) I'm confident that the people can see through rhe title and the amount of time we have used in the LWG doesn't seem to suggest anything different. People have taken the issue just as serious as theuy would have with any other title IMO. -Thorsten --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]