Re: [boost] Minor Iterator Adaptor documentation issues

From: Dirk Gerrits (dirkg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-18 10:52:49

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> 
>>>We could do that, but somebody needs to write 
>>>pointer_iterator_traits for compilers without 
>>>partial specialization. If you can figure out how 
>>>to do that, you'll be the hero of every VC++ user 
>>>in the world (hint: it's REALLY hard).
>>
>>I naively thought that it would just take a single use of 
>>remove_pointer. But of course this requires partial 
>>specialization as well! :\
> 
> 
> Well, not exactly. See
> http://www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/index.htm#transformations, the
> paragraph right after the table.

Ah yes. But we can't really expect iterator_adaptor users to use 
BOOST_BROKEN_COMPILER_TYPE_TRAITS_SPECIALIZATION can we? So then it 
would only work for built-in types.

Dirk