C++ Ranges proposal for the Standard Library

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 16:16:17 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> gets my point across.  It's always possible to reduce a library 
> interface to something that's even more stripped-down, which is 
> by definition more powerful and foundational.  But if the user 
> never wants to work at that low level of abstraction then 
> you're just imposing an unnecessary burden upon them.

Anything that you can do with an iterator can be done with a tail 
recursive function, but not vice versa, which means iterators 
serve no purpose.