Generating Sequences

A virtual container.

ByAnthony Williams

From the article:

I was having a discussion with my son over breakfast about C++ and python, and he asked me if C++ had anything equivalent to Python's range() function for generating a sequence of integers. I had to tell him that no, the C++ standard library didn't supply such a function, but there were algorithms for generating sequences ( std::generate and std::generate_n ) into an existing container, and you could write something that would provide a "virtual" container that would supply a sequence as you iterated over it with range-for...