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

From: Reid Sweatman (reids_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-17 15:56:52

> 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.

I think that would depend on how you implemented the interator wrapper,
wouldn't it?  It could certainly be made to remain hidden, without too much
overhead.