[boost] Re: Revised streambuf library

From: Jonathan David Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-14 20:42:07

"Maxim Egorushkin" <e-maxim_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:bev0ck$h6g$2_at_main.gmane.org...

 > support iterators why don't use it? Generally speaking, there should 
be only
 > two adapters (input and output) that take any STL sequence represented by
 > begin/end iterators.
 >

It seems to me that for output one needs at least two adapters: one for 
iterators which are at least forward iterators, whose constructor takes 
a pair of iterators, and one for simple output iterator, whose 
constructor takes a single iterator. The writing algorithm is slightly 
different in the latter case.

Of course, you could force them into one class using some compile-time 
switches, but this is exactly what my factories do.