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Dedicated adaptor fetching data from an object member

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Boost.Range adaptor APIs, especially transformed, and determine whether the proposed fetch pattern is generic enough for the public API. The issue names no files or tests, so first identify the relevant adaptor implementation and test locations; done would require an agreed API design and coverage for member-pointer usage.

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Description

In order to make code even more easily readable, I started encapsulating the creation of a "transform" range adaptor that accesses a member variable:

inline constexpr auto fetch = [](auto memberPtr)
{
    return boost::adaptors::transformed(std::bind(memberPtr, std::placeholders::_1));
};

// example
sort(c | fetch(&Object::name));

This solves the boiler-plate code required otherwise:

sort(c | transformed(std::bind(&Object::name, std::placeholders::_1)));

Do you think this is a generic enough pattern worthwhile to be added to "boost range"?

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