[boost] Re: SkippingIterator (Was: live_ptr => live_container/ live_iterator)

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-17 14:24:44

From: Reid Sweatman <reids_at_[hidden]>
> You're basically just describing a sentinel; why not actually implement one,
> and make the container one larger on construction, with the end condition
> being that you skipped to the sentinel?

That would be fine for some sort of cache_container, but might be a
clumsy precondition to put on an ordinary container that happens to
contain weak_ptrs.