[boost] Re: libs/iterator/doc/iterator_facade.html typo?

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-12 07:31:26

David Abrahams wrote:
> Huh?
>
>   CategoryOrTraversal
> 
>   Now we have to determine which iterator traversal concept our
>   node_iterator is going to model. Singly-linked lists only have
>   forward links, so our iterator can't can't be a bidirectional
>   traversal iterator. Our iterator should be able to make multiple
>   passes over the same linked list (unlike, say, an istream_iterator
>   which consumes the stream it traverses), so it must be a forward
>   traversal iterator. Therefore, we'll pass
>   boost::forward_traversal_tag in this position [1].
> 
>   [1] iterator_facade also supports old-style category tags, so we
>   could have passed std::forward_iterator_tag here; either way, the
>   resulting iterator's iterator_category will end up being
>   std::forward_iterator_tag.
> 
> What am I missing?

I am obviously blind and brain dead. Apologies for the noise.
Angus