Summary
This episode provides a quick introduction to C++20's Ranges library. Jason presents four key benefits: simplified algorithm calls without manually passing begin/end iterators, pipeable range views for data transformation, easy ways to skip elements, and lazy evaluation with transform_view. He demonstrates how Ranges helps avoid common errors like mismatched iterator pairs and simplifies common operations like processing all but the first element of a collection, while highlighting their constexpr support and mentioning alternatives like Range-v3 for compilers without C++20 support.
Related C++ Standard Sections
This episode covers topics found in these sections of the C++ standard:
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[ranges.syn]62% match -
[ranges]60% match -
[range.common.view]52% match -
[range.as.rvalue.view]51% match -
[range.enumerate.view]51% match -
[range.adjacent.view]51% match -
[range.chunk.view.fwd]51% match -
[range.stride.view]50% match -
[range.join.view]50% match -
[range.take.view]50% match - + 11 more related sections