Re: Missing in Booch: range operations

[mheaney@on2.com (Matthew Heaney)]

porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) wrote in message news:<3dcb8eec$0$307$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>...
> Range operations (deleting the range between two iterators, inserting 
> content of a container or its subrange into a position of another 
> container etc.) are missing in current Booch. Just to make sure that 
> these are not forgotten.

They were not forgotten in Charles:

  procedure Delete 
    (Container   : in out Container_Type;
     First, Back : Iterator_Type);

The list has splice operations, which are efficient because it only
swaps pointers -- there is no copying of elements:

   procedure Splice
     (Container : in out Container_Type;
      Before    : in     Iterator_Type;
      Source    : in out Container_Type);

   procedure Splice
     (Container : in out Container_Type;
      Before    : in     Iterator_Type;
      Source    : in out Container_Type;
      Iterator  : in     Iterator_Type);

   procedure Splice
     (Container : in out Container_Type;
      Before    : in     Iterator_Type;
      Source    : in out Container_Type;
      First     : in     Iterator_Type;
      Back      : in     Iterator_Type);

In the case of a vector, you can insert a single element:

   procedure Insert
     (Container : in out Container_Type;
      Before    : in     Index_Type;
      New_Item  : in     Element_Type);

If you want to copy the contents of another container into the middle
of a vector, you should first open up a "hole" in the vector:
     
   procedure Insert_N
     (Container : in out Container_Type;
      Before    : in     Index_Type'Base;
      Count     : in     Length_Subtype);

and then copy the items from the source into the newly-inserted range
(the empty hole) of the vector.

http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles/index.html

There is online documention for vector which delves into some of these
issues in greater detail:

http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles/charles-vectors-unbounded.html

 
> BTW, these should throw an exception if the begin and the end of the 
> range are from different containers.

The problem is that iterators only know about elements -- they don't
know anything about containers.  Neither Charles nor the STL attempts
to detect this error.