<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Method 1: provide member functions and nested types</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"> <link rel="home" href="../../../index.html" title="Chapter 1. Range 2.0"> <link rel="up" href="../extending.html" title="Extending the library"> <link rel="prev" href="../extending.html" title="Extending the library"> <link rel="next" href="method_2.html" title="Method 2: provide free-standing functions and specialize metafunctions"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="../extending.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../extending.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="method_2.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> <a name="range.reference.extending.method_1"></a><a class="link" href="method_1.html" title="Method 1: provide member functions and nested types"> Method 1: provide member functions and nested types</a> </h4></div></div></div> <p> This procedure assumes that you have control over the types that should be made conformant to a Range concept. If not, see <a class="link" href="method_2.html" title="Method 2: provide free-standing functions and specialize metafunctions">method 2</a>. </p> <p> The primary templates in this library are implemented such that standard containers will work automatically and so will <a href="../../../../../../../libs/array/index.html" target="_top">boost::array</a>. Below is given an overview of which member functions and member types a class must specify to be useable as a certain Range concept. </p> <div class="informaltable"><table class="table"> <colgroup> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> <p> Member function </p> </th> <th> <p> Related concept </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">begin</span><span class="special">()</span></code> </p> </td> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../../concepts/single_pass_range.html" title="Single Pass Range">Single Pass Range</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">end</span><span class="special">()</span></code> </p> </td> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../../concepts/single_pass_range.html" title="Single Pass Range">Single Pass Range</a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p> Notice that <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">rbegin</span><span class="special">()</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">rend</span><span class="special">()</span></code> member functions are not needed even though the container can support bidirectional iteration. </p> <p> The required member types are: </p> <div class="informaltable"><table class="table"> <colgroup> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> <p> Member type </p> </th> <th> <p> Related concept </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">iterator</span></code> </p> </td> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../../concepts/single_pass_range.html" title="Single Pass Range">Single Pass Range</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">const_iterator</span></code> </p> </td> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../../concepts/single_pass_range.html" title="Single Pass Range">Single Pass Range</a> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p> Again one should notice that member types <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">reverse_iterator</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">const_reverse_iterator</span></code> are not needed. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2003 -2010 Thorsten Ottosen, Neil Groves<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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