demangle tool

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2009-04-11 00:00:08 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
> 
>> Thanks. Arrays aren't a problem, but non-random-access ranges are 
>> problematic. (For arrays a slice could also be taken.) That's why I've 
>> been reluctant - if I make before and after primitives, then anyone 
>> defining a range needs to worry about implementing them.
> 
> Then could it be limited to random-access ranges? Other ranges could 
> provide their own implementation, if it makes sense for them. That'd 
> make another category of ranges: "intersectable ranges".
> 
> We could just provide primitives for consuming a range and returning the 
> consumed data (as my read function does above). This could be supported 
> by all ranges.
> 
> Which makes me think: how does the new regex library handle consuming 
> and backtracking with ranges?


For now regex only supports random-access ranges.

Andrei