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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-01 10:32:41


At 07:57 AM 3/1/2001 +0000, yahoo_at_[hidden] wrote:

>> > The devil is in the "so on", that's why you REALLY want to use
>> > Boost Iterator Adaptor Library, trust me .
>>
>> Can you explain this to me? I am new to the boost library.
>
>Well, first you have some redundancy in iterators implementation
>between * and ->, and post- and pre- increment / decrement.
>Then you have to handle interactionsbetween const- and non-const
>versions of your iterators...
>It would be GREAT if you could just implement the behavior and
>generate the implementation. I mean, it IS great ! Thanks to the
>(future) Boost Iterator Adaptor Library.
>Note that this is work in progress, as your can guess from the fact
>that it is only available from CVS archive. I recommend you to
>give it a try if you are implementing iterators, but you should
>wait for it's adoption before using it in real projects.
>Maybe it's still a moving target :-)

We are close to a release. A week away at the most. Probably sooner. The
release will include the Boost Iterator Adaptor Library and the Boost Test
Library.

--Beman


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