Re: Extending std::iota function

In C++0x the iota function has been added which I find very useful for
testing. However, I find the ability to only increment by 1 to be very
limiting. Sometimes we don't want to fill a container or array with
consecutive integers, we want to control the increment. Consequently,
I feel it would be useful to provide an overload for iota with this
functionality. For example:

//version of iota where user can specify the increment
template<typename Iter, typename Initial_Value, typename Step>
void iota(Iter _First, Iter _Last, Initial_Value value, Step step)
{
         for (; _First != _Last; ++_First, value += step)
                 *_First = value;

}