Re: [boost] Old Dinkum - does boost have (already) a workaround for this?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-11 12:12:18

Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> due to the reasons we all know, the old VC6 lib requires at least two
> arguments for std::reverse_iterator (the iterator and the
> corresponding value_type) instead of one. In fact the definition is:
>
>
> template<class _RI,
> 	class _Ty,
> 	class _Rt = _Ty&,
> 	class _Pt = _Ty *,
> 	class _D = ptrdiff_t>
> 	class reverse_iterator : public _Ranit<_Ty, _D> {
> public:
> 	typedef reverse_iterator<_RI, _Ty, _Rt, _Pt, _D> _Myt;
> 	typedef _RI iter_type;
> 	typedef _Rt reference_type;
> 	typedef _Pt pointer_type;
>         ....
>
>
> Before trying my own one, does boost have already a workaround for
> this? What I need is the classical
>
>  typedef std::reverse_iterator<iterator> reverse_iterator;
>  typedef std::reverse_iterator<const_iterator> const_reverse_iterator;

We have one in the iterator adaptors library.

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