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pfultz2 | 7 years ago

> For the sake of history, `range` was found/coined by Andrei

No it wasn't. Boost.Range library predates Andrei's Range talk in 2009. Boost.Range was introduced in boost 1.32, which was released in 2004:

And from Boost.Range's "History and Acknowledgement" it explains where the term came from:

> The term Range was adopted because of paragraph 24.1/7 from the C++ standard

Furthermore, what is being standardized in C++ is an expansion of what is in Boost.Range, which uses iterators underneath.

Andrei's term for ranges(and what is in D) are actually quite different as it removes the basis for iterators completely.

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