Re: [boost] Re: N1477 Single Pass Iterators and *r++

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-12 19:35:25

At 07:19 PM 7/12/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> At 04:17 PM 7/12/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >>
 >>  >> A single-pass iterator is required to support r++ (inherited from 
the
 >>  >> incrementable iterator requirements), but I guess that we've
 >>  >> unintentionally dropped the requiremnt for *r++ of readable
 >>  >> single-pass iterator, by allowing incrementable iterators to return
 >>  >> any type convertible to const X&.  I think it should require that 
the
 >>  >> return type be X, the Assertion/Note/Precondition/Postcondition
 >column
 >>  >> should be labelled "Operational Semantics" and the lower right 
entry
 >>  >> should be moved to the middle column.  The same goes for the
 >>  >> lower-right entry of each of the following two tables.
 >>  >>
 >>  >> I'm going to make those changes; if there are objections, please 
let
 >>  >> me know ASAP.
 >>  >
 >>  >Done.
 >>
 >> In the main CVS? iterator-categories.html is still dated several days
 >> ago. Or am I looking in the wrong place?
 >
 >I guess so.  Why would I be editing a document in the multi_array lib?

I was talking about boost-root/libs/iterator/doc/iterator-categories.html, 
committed July 7 by Joel. That is the document I was expecting to see 
updated.

 >I don't understand it, but Ron Garcia seems to have a fondness for
 >checking duplicates of information that is hosted elsewhere into his
 >library's tree.  The source for that paper is kept in
 >libs/iterator/docs/new-iter-concepts.rst and I keep an HTML version
 >up-to-date at
 >http://www.boost-consulting.com/writing/new-iter-concepts.html.

Ron added that last January. He wanted something in Boost releases to refer 
to, IIRC..

Wouldn't it be better to bring the Boost CVS libs/iterator/doc stuff 
up-to-date? Particularly since there is no index.html in libs/iterator 
pointing to other locations.

--Beman