2011/9/30 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
Dave Abrahams wrote:

> make it copyable, for example.  A wrapper over a plain pointer could
> initialize the pointer to 0.  Now it's a valid past-the-end iterator
> into an array of length zero.  Such an iterator is also comparable with
> other iterators into the same sequence.  That's actually far from
> being minimally singular.
>

I doubt there may be a sequence of length 0 at NULL.  How would you allocate
such a sequence?


That's not what he said.

As an aside though, recall that char foo[0]; is a valid declaration of a zero-length aray.