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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Daniel James <dnljms@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 January 2013 10:08, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Daniel James <dnljms@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It depends on how well the range algorithms works out. They might
>>> provide a more elegant way to manipulate optionals than if statements,
>>> similar to how a range algorithm can be more elegant than a for loop.
>>> This has worked out well in other languages, for example in Scala:
>>
>> Wouldn't this be better handled by a wrapper that allows optionals,
>> (smart) pointers and references to be handled as ranges?
>> Separation of concerns says this shouldn't be handled by optional itself.
>
> Fair enough. I find that such separation of concerns can end up with
> unwieldy interfaces, but that's a matter of opinion.

We can't add a range interface to raw pointers anyway, right?
-- 
Olaf

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