2005.12.07
If STL Had Been Designed by a Committee
I've been reading on XML schema, and it's embarrassingly obvious that it has been designed by a committee.
The facets for restricting a simple type include the following:
- minInclusive
- minExclusive
- maxInclusive
- maxExclusive
- length
- minlenth
- maxlength
On the C++ STL front, the same committee would grace us the following new container methods:
const_iterator begin_inclusive() const;
const_iterator end_inclusive() const;
reverse_iterator rbegin_inclusive();
reverse_iterator rend_inclusive();
const_iterator begin_exclusive() const;
const_iterator end_exclusive() const;
reverse_iterator rbegin_exclusive();
reverse_iterator rend_exclusive();
int element_ordinal(iterator pos) const;
void set_element_ordinal(iterator pos, int n);
