Re: [boost] Re: Cyclic iterators

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