next_permutation and cartesian product for ranges?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 9 15:09:38 PDT 2012


On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:23:07 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>
>> Yes, we need next_permutation. It will be up to you to convince the  
>> Grand Inquisition Committee of Reviewers that next_even_permutation is  
>> necessary and/or sufficient.
>
> I don't like the design of C++ STL here. Instead of a  
> next_permutation(), what about ranges that yield all permutations, all  
> adjacent permutations, all combinations?

Is there any advantage over having a function?  I'd think you could easily  
build a range based on the function, no?

-Steve


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