list<>.size()

[Michael Vance]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:36:58PM -0600, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> Note that not the whole of 'x' need be spliced in.  How can you figure
> out size([first,last)) in O(1)?

You can't. The MSVC implementation calls distance() on the incoming
list.

Ah well. I have sent a note to the original developers noting that
they are relying upon broken functionality...

m.

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