Re: [boost] Re: Re: Zero Unnecessary Temporary Objects: A Revolution

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-13 09:03:12

Howard Hinnant <hinnant_at_[hidden]> writes:

[...]

| I do not believe it is a good argument for making 
| temporaries const.  --c.end() is not inherently unsafe.  It simply does 
| not work if the iterator turns out to be a pointer.  This is a quirk of 
| the language and nothing more.

Indeed.  I see decrementation or incrementation as part of the
iterator interface (supported operations) and from that perspective,
it makes perfect sense to say --c.end().  I see no "unsafety" in that
constructs.  
That, it doesn't work on raw pointer types is a artifact that needs fix :-) 

-- Gaby