Shout out to D at cppcon, when talkign about ranges.

[lobo via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 1 October 2015 at 05:47:25 UTC, Eric Niebler wrote:

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> Hope that clears things up.

It does, thank you.

>
> Eric
>
> P.S. I see lots of people here assuming that C++ is playing 
> catch-up to D because D has ranges and C++ doesn't yet. That is 
> ignoring the long history of ranges in C++. C++ got ranges in 
> the form of the Boost.Range library by Thorsten Ottoson 
> sometime in the early 00's. Andrei didn't implement D's ranges 
> until many years after. The ranges idea is older than dirt. 
> It's not a D invention.

Fair point, I did overlook boost.range when considering the C++ 
range options.

bye
lobo