Re: [boost] Dynamic Bitset Formal Review June 8-17

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-11 11:51:39

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Chuck Allison wrote:
cda>
cda> But isn't it still an issue that you can't fulfill all of the
cda> iterator requirements because a bit is not addressable? In other
cda> words, iterators must allow:
cda>
cda> T* p = &*v.begin();

Yes, that is an issue. Thus a bit iterator can't model the Forward
Iterator concept.

cda> Can we do this with dyn_bitset?

I don't know of a way.

With my new iterator categories, the bit iterator could be better
categorized as a read and write iterator (but not lvalue) and it would
have random access traversal.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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