Another iterator_adaptor example (was Re: Help with iterator helpers)

From: grahamcshanks (graham.shanks_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-01 15:14:24

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <graham.shanks_at_a...>
> 
> 
> > Without wishing to gainsay the development of the Cyclic Iterator
> > Adaptor in this thread I think that this is missing an important
> > point. All the examples in the documentation of the iterator
> > adaptor library show adapators of iterators (excluding the
> > existing counting_iterator example which as Dave says may not be
> > that useful).
> 
> Just to be clear: what I meant was that counting_iterator might not 
be a
> very useful example of adapting a non-iterator, since the countable 
concept
> is so close to that of an iterator. Counting iterators themselves 
are
> extremely useful.

This is exactly the meaning that I intended, sorry for any impression 
that I unintentionally gave

Graham Shanks