Ranges

This is the first article in a series discussing some of the underlying properties of C++ ranges and in particular range adaptors. At the same time, I introduce the design of an experimental library which aims to solve some of the problems discussed here.

C++ Ranges are one of the major new things in C++20 and “views” are a big part of ranges. This article is a short introduction for programmers that are new to C++ Ranges.

C++17 was officially released last year and the work on C++20 quickly took off. A subset of the Concepts TS was merged and the first part of the Ranges TS has been accepted, too. Currently the next part of the Ranges TS is under review: “Range Adaptors and Utilities”. It brings the much-hyped “Views” to C++, but maybe you have been using them already via the Range-V3 library? In any case you might have wondered what you need to do to actually write your own view. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing complete view implementations (not just adaptations of existing ones).