Boost Range for Humans

Boost Range encapsulates the common C++ pattern of passing begin/end iterators around by combining them into into a single range object. It makes code that operates on containers much more readable. One wonders why such functionality was not included in the C++ standard library in the first place, and indeed, similar ideas could be added to C++17, see N4128 and Ivan Cukic's Meeting C++ presentation. In my opinion, Boost Range is something that every C++ programmer should know about.

The library is reasonably well documented, but I was often missing concrete code examples and an explicit mention what headers are required for which function. Since this presumably happens to other people as well, I invested the time to change that situation.

Thus, I present Boost Range for Humans. It contains working example code for every function in Boost Range, along with required headers and links to the official documentation and the latest source code. I hope it will make Boost Range more accessible and furthers its adoption.

Next week, we'll look into some of the highlights of what Boost Range can offer.