Re: [boost] Re: Separate iterator operators from iterator traits?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-25 19:35:45

At 01:28 PM 9/25/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Daryle,
 >
 >Your changes look uniformly like improvements, especially the many HTML
 >documentation improvements (wording got more concise, consistent and
 >cleaner) and fixes you supplied for code examples (thanks! and curse that
 >& symbol!)
 >
 >... except that you changed the names of the class templates. I was hapy
 >with bidirectional_iterator_operators, but "bidirectional_iteratible"
 >doesn't work at all for me. I'm not sure if "iteratible" is a word, but 
if
 >it is, I think it would be spelled "iteratable". In any case, I'd like to
 >hear from others about the choice of names. Jeremy? Aleksey?

Historical note:  I was the one who proposed the standard's 
CopyConstructible requirement in 20.1.3.  I've regretted a number of times 
afterwards that I didn't spell it CopyConstructable.

--Beman